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Open architecture.

One platform.

State Street Alpha helps you manage all of your investment products and business lines in one place. With easy access to aggregated data, analytics and real-time insights, you can collaborate with confidence, work faster and make better decisions.

One source for data and analytics. Imagine what you can do.

Streamlined data management

Curate data more effectively and say goodbye to fragmented workflows.

Access trusted providers

Gain choice and flexibility with our growing ecosystem of third-party providers.

Collaborate more effectively

Enhance efficiency by connecting data from multiple sources.

Reduce financial risk

Gain peace of mind with enhanced monitoring and improved data accuracy.

Improve real-time decision-making

Make smarter choices based on a single source of truth.

Explore new opportunities

Outsource core functions. Open pathways for growth.

Alpha Data Platform

Consistent workflows.
Holistic views.

Alpha’s flexibility, customizable toolset and open architecture deliver integrated data, technology and collaboration capabilities to support your specific needs and goals.

For investment managers

Operate from a complete, real-time view of positions, exposures and investable cash.

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For pensions and official institutions

Make timelier, better-informed asset allocations aligned with your investment policies.

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For wealth managers

Manage all wealth products on a single enterprise platform.

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For ETF issuers

Manage the entire ETF life cycle on a single platform from front to back.

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For insurers

Support increasingly complex portfolios and adapt to the shifting regulatory landscape.

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For private markets

Deploy capital more efficiently and manage your entire deal cycle on one platform.

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Is Alpha right for you?

Answer a few questions to uncover how our platform can transform your business.

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The high-quality, scalable operating model we gain with Alpha will help us provide best-in-class services to our portfolio managers and supporting functions. Because the platform lets us expand connectivity with custodians and brokers, we can improve our client servicing.
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Felix Lenhard
COO, Member of the Global Executive Board at Vontobel
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A New Paradigm for Investment Managers

State Street’s Swati Verma and Michael Beattie discuss how Alpha’s open architecture and interoperability with third-party solutions can help drive transformational value.

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Press Release
Vontobel Asset Management Transitions Front-to-Back Investment Servicing to State Street Alpha

January 2021
State Street Corporation and Vontobel announced they have entered into a multi-year service agreement.

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Manage and interpret your data at scale.

State Street Alpha’s open architecture platform provides seamless access to investment data from both internal and third-party services.

Solutions for:
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  • Front office
  • Middle office
  • Back office
  • Partner ecosystem
  • Data platform and services
Work seamlessly across your organization with real-time, data-driven insights
State Street Alpha empowers portfolio managers, traders and risk teams with a shared view of holdings, exposures and orders. Using a trusted data source and integrated portfolio analytics, you can manage risk more effectively, surface investment opportunities faster and source liquidity across asset classes.
  • Front-office capabilities:
    Portfolio construction, risk analytics, trading and compliance
  • Portfolio and risk analytics partners:
    FINCAD®, MSCI, Northfield, Qontigo, YieldBook
  • Liquidity and trading partners:
    360T, FXConnect®, Liquidnet, LTX®, Luminex®, MarketAxess®, Tradeweb, Trumid
  • Technology partners:
    Microsoft®, Snowflake®
Minimize manual processing and collaborate more effectively
With Alpha, operations teams reduce failed trades and settlement issues by automatically routing orders and allocations to counterparties in real time. Alpha’s investment book of record provides your front office with real-time cash and positions, and minimizes your dependence on custodians and outsourced asset servicers.
  • Middle-office capabilities:
    Autonomous position management, corporate actions processing, collateral management, performance measurement/attribution, flexible account structure support, post-trade settlement, securities lending
  • Middle-office and post-trade partners:
    AcadiaSoft, Broadridge®, Cassini Systems
  • Technology partners:
    Microsoft®, Snowflake®
Turn custodial data into the fuel that powers decision-making in your front office
Alpha accelerates decisions and enhances returns by providing portfolio managers with a clear, real-time view of unpledged collateral and securities on loan. With integrated transfer agency data, you can activate cash faster and manage redemptions to minimize portfolio impact. Automated straight-through processing makes your organization hum, while lowering operational risk.
  • Back-office capabilities:
    Client reporting, investment accounting, regulatory reporting, transfer agency
  • Back-office partners:
    Client reporting providers, global and regional custodians, investment accounting providers
  • Technology partners:
    Microsoft®, Snowflake®
Gain choice and flexibility with our growing community of third-party partners
Our partner ecosystem helps you access the external data and analytics, applications and liquidity venues that support the changing demands of your product and asset class mix. Public application programming interfaces (APIs) streamline connectivity to custodians, algo providers, accounting and post-trade systems, and regulatory reporting utilities.
  • Technology partners:
    Microsoft®, Snowflake®
The Alpha Data Platform and Alpha Data Services provide a foundation for sound decision-making by capturing, curating, and distributing data across your investment process.
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2020 growth readiness study

Are you ready for growth?

Our annual Growth Readiness study has been charting the transformation across investments, operations and distribution in recent years as our industry moves toward a new model.
We’re excited by the steps that Charles River is taking to deploy software and technologies to clients more quickly, and how that will help us move forward faster.
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Ewen Melling
Head of Technology Delivery

The heart of State Street Alpha platform is our front- and middle-office technology, Charles River IMS, working seamlessly with our middle- and back-office services. Clients in more than 30 countries rely on Charles River IMS to manage more than US$30 trillion* in assets.

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In The News
The Alpha Bet

November 2020
State Street Chairman and CEO Ron O’Hanley discusses our front-to-back strategy with Global Custodian.

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*As of February 2021

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