| State Street Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company through its subsidiaries, including its subsidiary State Street Bank and Trust Company, it provides a range of financial products and services to institutional investors worldwide. It has two lines of business: Investment Servicing and Investment Management. These two lines of business provide services to support institutional investors, including custody, administration, shareholder services, foreign exchange, brokerage and other trading services, deposit and short-term investment facilities, loan and lease financing, investment manager and alternative investment manager operations outsourcing. It acquired Mourant International Finance Administration, Intesa Sanpaolo and Bank of Ireland Asset Management on April 1, 2010, May 17, 2010 and January 10, 2011, respectively. In October 2011, the Company acquired Complementa Investment-Controlling AG. |
