Supporting your operations across the trade lifecycle
Streamline and simplify your investment process, from risk analysis and portfolio management to trading and settlement, all while gaining efficient access to liquidity, financing and research.
Shifting investor preferences, evolving regulations and rapid industry consolidation are creating more complexity than ever for investment managers across their front, middle and back office.
As the provider of the industry’s first front-to-back platform, State Street Alpha®, we understand your need for holistic solutions that take you from pre-trade to post-trade. The Alpha platform connects clients’ investment applications, insights and partners for greater speed, efficiency and choice. Alpha’s technology, services and open architecture deliver front-, middle- and back-office services underpinned by robust, centralized data delivery capabilities.
As you face growing operational challenges – whether digital transformation trends, growth in alternative investments or shortening of settlement cycles – we’re ready to support you across your investment process.
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Institutional portfolios continue to grow in size and complexity as firms launch differentiated investment products. Constructing high-performing portfolios that generate optimal returns requires access to powerful risk analytics, research and data that help surface new market opportunities.
Optimize your approach with our portfolio and risk solutions to deliver superior outcomes.
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Charles River end-to-end investment lifecycle support
Charles River automates front- and middle-office processes, helping clients streamline operations, reduce risk and improve reliability. We support the entire investment lifecycle on a single platform, from portfolio and risk management through trading and post-trade settlement.
Liquidity
Assess your liquidity risk, access finance options and execute trading strategies that meet changing liquidity needs.
Research
Identify risks, formulate growth strategies and make better-informed investment decisions through our data-based proprietary research.
Investment risk analytics
Access an end-to-end risk solution through truView®, our integrated analytics platform, covering multiasset-class investments and insights.
Execution regulations and fragmented liquidity across hundreds of global trading venues are escalating trading costs and compliance risks.
Our trade solutions provide a customized approach that draws from data-driven research and expertise, helping you generate returns while keeping risk in check.
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Outsourced trading
Whether you’re looking for a complete 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.
Foreign exchange
StreetFXSM , our low-touch liquidity solution, provides a fully automated, rules-based platform that reduces trading costs, minimizes operational costs and mitigates uncompensated risk in the FX trade lifecycle.
Currency management
Minimize operational risk, manage unwanted tracking error and increase efficiency through bespoke foreign exchange execution and extensive currency hedging solutions.
Secured financing
Our secured financing solution offers accessibility to cash investment and financing outlets for a wide range of institutional participants.
Increased trade volumes, reduced headcount and greater asset class diversity increase the potential for trade breaks, requiring manual processing that delays trade settlement. Regulations are also forcing firms to post collateral when trading repos and derivatives, creating a drag on fund returns.
Our solutions provide the front office with a real-time view of investable cash, unpledged collateral and securities available for lending.
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GlobalLink
TradeNeXusSM – part of our GlobalLink suite of market-leading e-trading platforms, technology, data and workflow solutions – is an electronic post-trade processing service that provides matching, settlement and messaging services for foreign exchange and money market transactions.
T+1 settlement: Clearing and settlement solutions
Simplify your operating model and ensure T+1 readiness with our clearing and settlement services.
Collateral management
Using our pre- and post-trade optimization tools, you can reduce drag, manage cash positions, address changing regulations and strengthen your collateral management.
Global custody services
Global custody is at the core of what we do, and our comprehensive suite of custody services offer safekeeping and settlement, asset servicing network management, cash management and near real-time reporting.
