State Street Corporation
| File:State Street Corporation logo.svg | |
| Company type | Public company |
|---|---|
| NYSE: STT S&P 500 Index component | |
| ISIN | US8574771031  |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 1792 |
| Headquarters | One Lincoln Street Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Key people | Joseph L. Hooley (Chairman and CEO) Ron O'Hanley (President and COO) |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  US$11.170 billion (2017) |
| US$2.177 billion (2017) | |
| AUM | US$2.782 trillion (2017) |
| Total assets |  US$238.425 billion (2017) |
| Total equity | US$22.317 billion (2017) |
Number of employees | 36,643 (2017) |
| Capital ratio | 15.5% tier 1 capital (2017) |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
State Street Corporation is an American[2] financial services and bank holding company headquartered at One Lincoln Street in Boston with operations worldwide. It is the 2nd United States bank on the list of oldest banks in continuous operation; its predecessor, Union Bank, was founded in 1792. State Street is ranked 14th on the list of largest banks in the United States by assets. It is one of the largest asset management companies in the world with US$2.78 trillion under management and US$33.12 trillion under custody and administration. It is the largest custodian bank in the world.[3]
The company is ranked 271st on the Fortune 500.[4] The company is on the list of the banks that are too big to fail published by the Financial Stability Board.[5]
The company is named after State Street in Boston, which was known as the "Great Street to the Sea" in the 18th century as Boston became a flourishing maritime capital. The company's logo includes a clipper to reflect the maritime industry in Boston during this time.
Current operations
Investment servicing: State Street Global Services
State Street Bank and Trust Company, also known as Global Services, is the investment servicing division of State Street. It provides asset owners and managers with custodian bank services (safekeeping, corporate actions), fund accounting (pricing and valuation), and administration (financial reporting, tax, compliance, and legal) services. Global Services handles assets from many classes, including equities, derivatives, exchange-traded funds, fixed income assets, private equity, and real estate. State Street administers 40% of the assets under administration in the US mutual fund market. Global Services also provides outsourcing for operations activities and handles US$10.2 trillion of middle-office assets.[1]
Investment management: State Street Global Advisors
State Street Global Advisors dates back to 1978. It provides asset management, investment management, research, and advisory services to corporations, mutual funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors. Global Advisors develops both passive management and active management strategies using both quantitative and fundamental approaches.[1]
In 1993, the company created the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF, the first exchange-traded fund (ETF), and is now one of the largest ETF providers worldwide.[6]
State Street Global Markets
Global Markets is State Street's securities business. It offers research, trading, and securities lending services for foreign exchange, stocks, fixed income, and derivatives. To avoid a conflict of interest, the company does not run proprietary trading books. Global Markets maintains trading desks in Boston, London, Sydney, Toronto, and Tokyo.[1]
History
The company traces its roots to Union Bank, which received a charter in 1792 from Massachusetts Governor John Hancock. It was the third bank to be chartered in Boston and its office was at the corner of State and Exchange Streets.[7][8] In 1865, Union Bank received a national charter and became the National Union Bank of Boston. The bank later built a headquarters at Washington and State streets.[9]
State Street Deposit & Trust Co opened in 1891. It became the custodian of the first U.S. mutual fund in 1924, the Massachusetts Investors Trust (now MFS Investment Management).[8]
20th century
State Street and National Union merged in 1925.[7] The merged bank took the State Street name, but National Union was the nominal survivor, and it operated under National Union's charter, thus giving the current entity its rank among the oldest banks in the United States.
The company merged with Second National Bank in 1955 and with the Rockland-Atlas National Bank in 1961.[10][11]
In 1966, the company completed construction of the State Street Bank Building, a new headquarters building, the first high-rise office tower in downtown Boston.
In 1972, the company opened its first international office in Munich.
In 1973, as a 50/50 joint venture with DST Systems, the company formed Boston Financial Data Services, a provider of shareholder record-keeping, intermediary and investor services, and regulatory compliance. More than 100 top staff from IBM were hired by State Street as it set about implementing IBM mainframe computer systems.
In 1975, William Edgerly became president and chief executive officer of the bank and shifted the company's strategy from commercial banking to investments and securities processing.[8]
During the 1980s and 1990s, the company opened offices in Montreal, Toronto, Dublin, London, Paris, Dubai, Sydney, Wellington, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.[8]
By 1992, most of State Street's revenue came from fees for holding securities, settling trades, keeping records, and performing accounting.[8] In 1994, the company formed State Street Global Advisors, a global asset management business.
In 1999, it sold its retail and commercial banking businesses to Citizens Financial Group.
In 1995, the company acquired Investors Fiduciary Trust of Kansas City for $162 million from DST Systems and Kemper Financial Services.[12]
21st century
In 2002, State Street Bank Luxembourg was founded, and as of 2018[update] is the largest player in the country's fund industry by assets.[13]
In 2003, the company acquired the securities services division of Deutsche Bank for $1.5 billion.[14] The company also sold its corporate trust business to U.S. Bancorp for $725 million.[15]
In 2003, the company sold its private asset management business to U.S. Trust.[16]
In July 2007, the company acquired Investors Bank & Trust for $4.5 billion.[17]
In October 2008, the United States Department of the Treasury invested $2 billion in the company as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and in July 2009, the company became the first major financial firm to repay the Treasury.[18]
In 2010, the company acquired Mourant International Finance Administration.[19] It also acquired the securities services group of Intesa Sanpaolo for $1.87 billion.[20]
In December 2010, the company announced that it would be retrenching 5% of its workforce and effectively reducing the hourly wages of remaining employees by 10% via increased standard work hours.[21]
In November 2011, the company was named as amongst the world's 29 systemic banks.[22]
In 2012, the company acquired Goldman Sachs Administration Services, a hedge fund administrator, for $550 million.[23]
In November 2014, the company sold SSARIS Advisors, its hedge fund unit, to senior management.[24]
In July 2016, the company acquired the asset management business of General Electric.[25]
In 2016, State Street launched a program called Beacon, focused on cutting cost and improving reporting technology.[26]
In 2017, the company announced that Jay Hooley, the chief executive officer of the company, would retire.[27][28]
In 2018, State Street completed it's acquisition of Charles River Development, a Burlington, Massachusetts provider of investment management software. The deal closed October 1, 2018 at a cost of approximately $2.6 billion that will be financed by the suspension of share repurchases and the issuing of common and preferred equity. [29]
Controversies
Currency trade fraud
In 2009, California alleged on behalf of its pension funds CalPERS and CalSTRS that State Street had committed fraud on currency trades handled by the custodian bank.[30][31] In October 2011, two executives from State Street Global Markets left the company following charges over the pricing of a fixed income transaction. In April 2016, they were charged by the United States Department of Justice.[32]
Non-disclosure of short position
On February 28, 2012, State Street Global Advisors entered into a consent order with the Massachusetts Securities Division. The Division was investigating SSGA's role as the investment manager of a $1.65 billion (USD) hybrid collateralized debt obligation. The investigation resulted in a fine of $5 million (USD) for the non-disclosure of certain initial investors taking a short position on portions of the CDO.[33]
During the May 2012 annual shareholders meeting, chairman and chief executive Jay Hooley was shouted down on numerous occasions by protesters in relation to the outsourcing and other grievances.[34]
Secret commissions
On January 18, 2017, State Street agreed to pay $64.6 million to resolve U.S. investigations into what prosecutors said was a scheme to defraud six clients through secret commissions on billions of dollars of trades.[35][36]
Fearless Girl statue
In March 2017, State Street Global Advisors commissioned a statue called Fearless Girl by Kristen Visbal and placed it temporarily in the Financial District, Manhattan, in front of the Wall Street icon Charging Bull. The statue is an advertisement for an index fund which comprises gender diverse companies that have a higher percentage of women among their senior leadership.[37] While some have seen it as an encouragement of women in business, some women criticized the statue as "corporate feminism" that violated their own feminist principles.[38][39][40][41] In October 2017, the company paid $5 million to settle a lawsuit charging that it had paid certain female and African-American executives less than their male and European-American peers.[42]
See also
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. is a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on July 23, 1998 that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces "a useful, concrete and tangible result".
References
- ^ a b c d "State Street Corporation 2017 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- ^ "State Street on the Forbes Global 2000 List". Forbes.
State Street ... Forbes Global 2000 List. ... State Street Corp. financial ... America's Largest Public Companies 2018. #252
- ^ Joe Parsons (July 20, 2018). "State Street leapfrogs BNY Mellon as world's largest custodian". Global Custodian. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
- ^ "Fortune 500: State Street Corporation". Fortune.
- ^ "2015 update of list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs)" (PDF). Financial Stability Board. November 3, 2015.
- ^ "The First ETF Turns 20: Innovation That Leveled the Playing Field for All Investors Reaches New Milestone" (Press release). Business Wire. January 29, 2013.
- ^ a b Badenhausen, Kurt (December 18, 2012). "America's Best And Worst Banks". Forbes.
- ^ a b c d e FundingUniverse, 2014, History of State Street Corporation, retrieved 22 June 2014
- ^ "Clipping from Boston Post - Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
- ^ "History of State Street Corporation". FundingUniverse. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
- ^ "Two Big Banks in Boston Slate Union Into 2d Largest in Area". The New York Times. December 21, 1960.
- ^ "State Street Celebrates 10th Anniversary of its Kansas City Operations" (Press release). Business Wire. January 31, 2005.
- ^ ""We represent roughly 25% of the fund industry"". The Business Report. January 22, 2018.
- ^ "State Street will become largest securities services firm". USA Today. November 5, 2002.
- ^ "U.S. Bank to Acquire State Street's Corporate Trust Business" (Press release). Business Wire. August 13, 2002.
- ^ "U.S. Trust Completes Acquisition of State Street's Private Asset Management Business" (Press release). Business Wire. November 3, 2003.
- ^ "State Street Completes Acquisition of Investors Financial Services Corp" (Press release). Business Wire. July 2, 2007.
- ^ "State Street is first to pay back all TARP funds". Boston.com. Bloomberg News. July 11, 2009.
- ^ Sullivan, Ruth (December 6, 2009). "State Street grows with Mourant purchase". Financial Times.
- ^ Herbst-Bayliss, Svea (December 22, 2009). "State Street buys Intesa securities services unit". Reuters.
- ^ Van Sack, Jessica (December 12, 2010). "Days to get longer at State Street". The Boston Herald.
- ^ Smith, Geoffrey T. (November 5, 2011). "Bucket List: G20 Panel Names Top Global Banks". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "State Street to Acquire Goldman Sachs Administration Services" (Press release). Business Wire. July 17, 2012.
- ^ "State Street Shrinks Hedge Fund Operations With Sale Of SSARIS Advisors To Management". Forbes. November 24, 2014.
- ^ "State Street Completes Acquisition of GE Asset Management" (Press release). Business Wire. July 1, 2016.
- ^ Stein, Charles; Levingston, Ivan (September 20, 2017). "State Street Embraces Artificial Intelligence". Bloomberg L.P.
- ^ "State Street Implements Leadership Succession Plan" (Press release). Business Wire. November 7, 2017.
- ^ Reosti, John (November 7, 2017). "Succession shoe drops at another big trust bank". American Banker.
- ^ Stein, Charles; Maranz, Felice (2018-07-20). "State Street slides on $2.6 billion Charles River Development acquisition". The Boston Globe. Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
- ^ Dash, Eric (October 20, 2009). "California Sues State Street Bank for Fraud". The New York Times.(subscription required)
- ^ "California sues State Street over pension funds". Reuters. October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Two Former Senior Executives of Global Financial Services Company Charged in Scheme to Defraud Clients through Secret Trading Commissions on Billions of Dollars in Securities Trades" (Press release). United States Department of Justice. April 5, 2016.
- ^ "Consent Order" (PDF). Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. February 28, 2012.
- ^ "UPDATE 2-Protester shouts disrupt State Street annual meeting". Reuters. May 16, 2017.
- ^ "State Street Corporation Agrees to Pay More than $64 Million to Resolve Fraud Charges" (Press release). United States Department of Justice. January 18, 2017.
- ^ Raymond, Nate (January 18, 2017). "State Street to pay $64.6 million to resolve U.S. fraud probes". Reuters.
- ^ Stein, Lindsay (May 3, 2017). "EIGHT THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT 'FEARLESS GIRL'". Advertising Age.
- ^ Belafonte, Gina (March 16, 2017). "The False Feminism of 'Fearless Girl'". The New York Times.(subscription required)
- ^ Kosoff, Maya (October 6, 2017). "FIRM BEHIND FEMINIST FEARLESS GIRL STATUE CAUGHT PAYING WOMEN LESS". Vanity Fair.
- ^ Sheffler, Cara Marsh (March 14, 2017). "The 'Fearless Girl' statue sums up what's wrong with feminism today". The Guardian.
- ^ Bovy, Phoebe Maltz (March 14, 2017). "'Fearless Girl' Statue Not The Feminist Icon We Need". The Forward.
- ^ Chesto, Jon (October 5, 2017). "Firm behind 'Fearless Girl' statue to pay $5m over equal pay for women, minorities". The Boston Globe.
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