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State Street pays $35M to settle SEC charges

The SEC has announced that State Street Global Markets, LLC, State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC and State Street Bank and Trust Company (State Street) have agreed to pay $32.3 million to settle charges that they fraudulently charged secret markups for transition management services. An SEC order finds that State Street’s scheme to overcharge transition management customers generated approximately $20 million in improper revenue for the firm. State Street used false trading statements, pre-trade estimates, and post-trade reports to misrepresent its compensation on various transactions, especially purchases and sales of bonds and other securities that trade outside large transparent markets. When one customer detected some hidden markups and confronted State Street employees, they falsely called it a “fat finger error” and “inadvertent commissions” in order to conceal the scheme.

In a separate SEC order, the agency found that State Street Bank and Trust Company failed to inform subscribers to its government securities trading platform called GovEx that despite marketing the system as “fair and transparent” it provided one subscriber with a “Last Look” trading functionality that allowed a short period of time for the subscriber to reject a match to a submitted quote. The subscriber used Last Look to reject 57 matches that each had a $1 million face value. State Street did not inform the counterparties that their orders had been rejected with Last Look. While developing Last Look, State Street even told one subscriber that the platform did not have Last Look functionality at all. The bank was ordered to pay $3 million to settle these charges.

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