State Street Corporation: Глобальный финансовый гигант

Global financial services company

State Street Corporation (stylized in all caps), is a global financial services and bank holding company headquartered at One Congress Street in Boston with operations worldwide. It is the second oldest continually operating United States bank; 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$3.7 trillion under management and US$40.0 trillion under custody and administration in 2023. It is the largest custodian bank in the world, providing securities services and it is considered a systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board. Along with BlackRock and Vanguard, State Street is considered to be one of the Big Three index fund managers that dominate corporate America. The company is ranked 316th on the Fortune 500 as of 2022. The company is on the list of the banks that are too big to fail published by the Financial Stability Board. It is rated by Visual Capitalist as the third U. S. bank by uninsured deposits, with 91.2% of deposits being uninsured. 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 formerly included a clipper ship to reflect the maritime industry in Boston during this time.

State Street Bank and Trust Company, also known as Global Services, is the securities services division of State Street that provides asset owners and managers with securities services (e. g. custody, corporate actions), fund accounting (pricing and valuation), and administration (financial reporting, tax, compliance, and legal) services. Global Services handles assets from many classes, including stocks, derivatives, exchange traded funds, fixed income assets, private equity, and real estate. Global Services also provides outsourcing for operations activities and handles US$10.2 trillion of middle office assets. 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. Trading on SPDR began January 29, 1993.

Global Markets is State Street's securities business that offers research, trading, and securities lending services for foreign exchange, equities, 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, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, Tokyo and São Paulo 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. State Street Deposit & Trust Co opened in July 1891. The name was shortened to State Street Trust Company in 1897. It became the custodian of the first U. S. mutual fund in 1924, the Massachusetts Investors Trust (now MFS Investment Management). 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. In 1996, Bank of New York acquired the unit investment trust servicing business of Investors Fiduciary Trust Co., Kansas City, Mo. In 1997, State Street setup its office in Singapore. In 1999, State Street sold its retail and commercial banking businesses to Citizens Financial Group.

In 1990, State Street Bank Luxembourg was founded, and as of 2018 is the largest player in the country's fund industry by assets. In 2003, the company acquired the securities services division of Deutsche Bank for $1.5 billion. The company also sold its corporate trust business to U. S. Bancorp for $725 million. Also in 2003, State Street sold its private asset management business to U. S. Trust. In July 2007, the company acquired Investors Bank & Trust for $4.5 billion. 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. In 2010, the company acquired Mourant International Finance Administration. It also acquired the securities services group of Intesa Sanpaolo for $1.87 billion. 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. In November 2011, the company was named as amongst the world's 29 systemic banks. In 2012, the company acquired Goldman Sachs Administration Services, a hedge fund administrator, for $550 million. In November 2014, the company sold SSARIS Advisors, its hedge fund unit, to senior management. In 2016, State Street launched a program called Beacon, focused on cutting costs and improving reporting technology. Their main focus was to shrink their US workforce in order to bolster profits in excess of $2.5 billion (2018 figures). Also in 2016, the company acquired the asset management business of General Electric. In 2017, the company announced that Jay Hooley, the chief executive officer of the company, would retire, to be succeeded by Ronald P. O’Hanley, then vice chairman, president and CEO of State Street Global Advisors. In 2018, State Street completed its 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. News of the acquisition led to a drop in State Street shares of nearly 10% with share prices remaining flat since the purchase. In January 2019, State Street announced that it planned to lay off 1,500 employees, increasing the number to 2,300 in July. During that period, the company shifted their workforce from the United States to countries like China, India and Poland and operated under a hiring freeze. In September 2021, State Street agreed to buy Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.'s investor services business for $3.5 billion in cash. Following continued scrutiny in receiving regulatory approvals, the deal was mutually agreed to be dropped in November 2022.

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.

On February 28, 2012, State Street Global Advisors entered into a consent order with the Massachusetts Securities Division. The Division was investigating the firm'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.

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.

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.

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. 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. In October 2017, the company paid $5 million to settle a lawsuit charging that it had paid certain female and black executives less than their male and white peers.

State Street announced in January 2020 that State Street Global Advisors will vote against directors of companies in major stock indices that do not meet targets for environmental, social, and governance changes. According to Morningstar Proxy Data, State Street, "supported a majority of the climate related disclosure requests that shareholders placed on the ballot," during the 2020 proxy season.

+ Financials in billions of US$ Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Revenue 3.577 3.827 4.396 4.734 4.951 5.473 6.311 8.336 10.69 8.640 8.953 9.594 9.649 9.884 10.30 10.36 10.21 11.17 11.98 Net income 0.595 0.628 1.015 0.722 0.798 0.838 1.106 1.261 1.811 −1.881 1.556 1.920 2.061 2.136 2.037 1.980 2.143 2.177 2.599 Assets 69.30 69.85 85.79 87.53 94.04 97.97 107.4 142.5 173.6 157.9 160.5 216.8 222.6 243.3 274.1 245.2 242.7 238.4 244.6 Assets under management 420 667 800 1,000 1,150 1,320 1,610 1,705 1,650 1,830 2,000 2,159 2,190 2,215 2,230 2,245 2,468 2,782 2,511 Headcount thousands 17.6 19.75 19.5 19.85 19.67 20.97 21.7 27.11 28.48 27.31 28.67 29.74 29.65 29.43 29.97 32.36 33.78 36.64 40.14

State Street Bank records at Harvard Business School.