Solutions
Global Markets
Our full range of Global Markets solutions combines data, insights and scale to help enhance and preserve the value of your portfolios, so you can achieve better investment outcomes.
Leverage our data-driven research to gain a deeper understanding of how investor behaviour, media narratives and real-time economics interact to drive markets. Efficiently manage risk across your portfolios through our multi-asset-class trade execution technology. Access our strong global network and local market expertise designed to help you stay up-to-date with market developments to gain a competitive edge.
Research
State Street is responsible for 11.5 percent of the world’s assets.1 This perspective gives us uniquely deep insights into timely topics — from macro market trends and regulatory shifts, to geopolitical impacts and investment complexities — which we share with our clients.
- Award-winning insights: Delivered on our Global Markets Insights platform, State Street Associates’ authoritative and groundbreaking work is highly relevant and well-regarded, is regularly published in trade journals and magazines, and has won numerous industry awards.
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- Academic partnerships: We work closely with thought leaders from many of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions to explore the topics that are fundamentally altering markets. From inflation and media sentiment to digital investing and sustainability, we provide an information edge that helps you make informed investment decisions in an increasingly unpredictable world.
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- Market indicators: Our suite of Institutional Investor Indicators provides a top-down view into the positioning, risk appetite and portfolio carbon exposure of thousands of institutional investors around the world, representing trillions of US dollars in assets. Our data scientists distill insights for clients from a vast proprietary database of aggregated and anonymised trades.
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Financing Solutions
As one of the longest running and largest securities financing providers in the industry, we are well-positioned to understand your financing and investment needs across markets and geographies.
We support a diverse breadth of global liquidity requirements through our easy-to-use trading platforms that provide flexibility and offer local insights across multiple markets and jurisdictions. Mitigate risks and successfully navigate market changes through portfolio restructuring by leveraging our portfolio solutions and securities execution services.
Combining our full suite of offerings, supported by a business model that is built to deliver stability through market cycles, we can help identify potential areas for savings, profits and, ultimately, achieve alpha.
- Agency lending: Capitalize on opportunities to enhance revenue through our agency lending services by loaning your unutilized securities to a borrower in a collateralized transaction. As lender, you maintain the beneficial ownership rights of your securities, and brokers are contractually obligated to return the securities.
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- Sponsored member repo: Our offering provides “lite-level” access to the benefits and safeguards of the Fixed Income Clearing Corp (FICC) for clearing United States Treasury (UST) repo activities. Using our solution, you can trade cleared repo with FICC without having to satisfy full membership obligations (e.g., contribution to FICC’s Default Fund) or face the risk of loss mutualization.
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Outsourced Trading
Whether you’re looking for a complete outsourced trading solution or more targeted support to help expand your reach or supplement your current operations, our trading services are custom-tailored to fit where you need them most, with low-touch, modular or full service options.
Foreign Exchange (FX)
We offer customized workflow-based liquidity solutions and FX trading and execution for custody and non-custody clients. Choose from multiple ways to execute your FX transactions with our flexible services that include both principal — eFX, DirectFX, StreetFXSM, IndirectFX.
Our currency management offering provides currency hedging, and outsourced agency hedging and execution solutions to investment managers, asset owners and institutional investors.
The State Street difference
With more than a quarter-century track record of delivering research and trading value for institutional clients, we combine long-established academic partnerships and proprietary data sets to help you meet your goals. Our powerful, full-service approach can help you optimise returns in smarter and simpler ways. Identify opportunities, mitigate risk and maximise alpha generation with our proprietary, award-winning flow indicators, macro strategy expertise and quantitative investment analytics. Additionally, our electronic platforms deliver proven, innovative and reliable means to help achieve your objectives across the entire investment lifecycle.
Awards
We’re proud to be recognised as an industry leader across our Global Markets solutions, partnerships and insights:
- Currency Manager of the Year – European Pensions Awards 2024
- The World’s Best Technology Provider for FX Data Management (BestX); The World’s Best FX Trading Technology Solution (GlobalLink Digital); The World’s Best FX Bank for Client Service; The World’s Best FX Bank for Research (Euromoney Foreign Exchange Awards 2024)
- State Street’s Megan Czasonis, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington’s paper “Relevance” winners of the Harry Markowitz Award (The Journal Of Investment Management)
- Best in Securities Lending (since 2015) – The Asset’s Triple A Sustainable Investing Awards
- State Street Currency Management named “Best Overlay Manager” (FX Markets - FX 2023 Awards)
- State Street Global Markets recognized as Americas Lender of the Year (Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards 2023)
