2017 Mid-Year Highlights
• Depositary receipt (DR) capital raising totaled
$4.1 billion globally
• DR trading volume was down 10% to 72.2 billion shares
in the first half of 2017 versus 79.9 billion in 2016
• U.S. investment in non-U.S. equities as of Q1 2017
was $7.6 trillion, up 8% from Q4 2016 level of $7.1 trillion
• The value of DRs held by institutional investors totaled
$850 billion as of Q2 2017
• The pool of unsponsored ADR programs remains
strong at 1,671 programs
• Citi was named ‘Best DR Bank’ in Asia in
The Asset
magazine’s 2017 Triple A Asset Servicing, Investor
and Fund Management Awards