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| To conclude, amidst the challenges of the market environment in 3Q, we remain dedicated to driving stronger business momentum and improving fee growth |
| I think there is -- I think we have good visibility into a good and healthy amount of capital return and comfortably over what we've committed to, I'll call it the medium term |
| Our sales pipeline continues to grow and remain strong for our Charles River Development Front office solutions products |
| The NII results were somewhat better-than-expected due to non-interest-bearing deposit levels coming down slightly less-than-expected, and the portfolio repositioning, partially offset by client repricing, some of which will be delayed and will impact the fourth quarter instead |
| Lastly, across our client franchise, we saw record quarterly cash net inflows of $41 billion as we captured some of the cyclical movement of cash in the financial system |
| That said, we are pleased with our ongoing transformation and productivity initiatives, which help us to contain that expense growth, while allowing us to continue to invest in our businesses |
| In our institutional business, notwithstanding net outflows of $30 billion in the quarter, which were primarily driven by client in-sourcing, both our Defined Contribution and Index Fixed Income products continue to drive strategic momentum |
| The estimated annual new servicing fee revenue to be recognized in future periods associated with 3Q asset servicing wins amounted to $91 million, which is the highest level of quarterly new servicing fees in over two years, demonstrating our ability to achieve our ambition of driving stronger sales performance |
| Encouragingly, Alpha's momentum continued in 3Q |
| As you can see, we continue to navigate the operating environment with very strong capital levels, which remain above both our internal targets and the regulatory minimum |
| In ETFs, we had neutral overall flows, but saw positive net inflows and consistent market share gains in the SPDR portfolio low-cost suite |
| As you can see on the bottom-right of the slide, our investment management franchise remains well-positioned with very strong and broad-based business momentum across each of its businesses |
| We are executing against our plan to improve core back-office custody sales performance as it is our largest revenue pool installed quickly has significant scale and drives high-margin ancillary revenues |
| So in terms of just getting the program up and running, we're actually quite pleased with where we are |
| Key client wins such as Vontobel, demonstrate how Alpha can establish, broaden, and deepen client relationships, further positioning State Street as our client's essential partner |
| Quarter-on-quarter, management fees were up 4% as a result of higher equity market levels and record quarterly cash net inflows |
| Accelerating the sales cycle and implementation timeline, particularly back-office services remains an important strategic priority to drive even more fee revenue growth |
| CRD continues to perform well and has a strong pipeline |
| But, I think what we encourage you to do is take a look at the revenue -- the wins on a revenue basis against the base of servicing fees, right, $91 million in the quarter against the $5 billion of servicing fees is a very healthy amount of revenue |
| What we have seen is very good fee rates on new business |
| Importantly, our cash business gained market share in an expanding market, driven by strong investment performance coupled with a higher yield environment |
| Our third-quarter performance was solid with fee revenue growth of 3% year-on-year |
| These servicing wins underscore the progress we're making towards stronger sales performance |
| To drive continued growth, in 3Q we reduced the price on 10 low-cost SPDR portfolio ETFs, demonstrating our commitment to delivering institutional quality investment solutions at competitive price points |
| We executed on our plan to improve sales capacity and reported $91 million in new servicing fee wins in the quarter, as we look towards our goal of $350 million to $400 million in servicing fee wins in 2024 |
| I am proud to highlight that State Street's foreign exchange business has once again been recognized as the industry leader |
| And as you've seen us do for the last four years, we again demonstrate expense discipline, while continuing to invest in the business |
| Turning to our financial condition, State Street's balance sheet, liquidity and capital positions remain strong |
| Our CET1 ratio was a strong 11% at quarter end, well above our regulatory minimum |
| This strength has enabled us to deliver against our goal of capital return to our shareholders |
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| Sequentially, revenues were down 12%, primarily as a result of seasonally lower activity and the recent industry drop-off of US Equity shoring activity and specials |
| Against the backdrop of softening economic data, market sentiment was negatively impacted by continued global central bank rate hikes and investor concerns of a higher-for-longer interest rate environment in an economic hard landing |
| Now turning to the third quarter, global financial market performance was mixed as a positive start for equity markets in July turned decisively negative as the quarter progressed |
| Sequentially, front office software and data revenue was down 20%, primarily driven by lower on-premise renewals, partially offset by higher software-enabled revenues |
| Securities finance revenues were down 6% year-on-year due to lower specials activity and lower agency balances |
| This risk-off sentiment leads to the current headwind across the servicing industry |
| Turning to Slide 10, third quarter NII decreased 5% year-on-year and 10% sequentially to $624 million |
| We also expect that our market businesses will be down modestly year-over-year, given lower volatility |
| These terrible events have shocked the world and created further global geopolitical uncertainty |
| Third quarter FX trading services revenue was down 2% year-on-year, while up 3% sequentially |
| As I've mentioned over the past year, we continue to see lower levels of client activity inflows, all of which impact transactional volumes, leading to a 2 percentage point to 3 percentage point headwind on servicing fees year-to-date |
| Sequentially, total servicing fees were down 2% primarily as a result of lower client activity and adjustments in previously -- in a previously disclosed client transition, partially offset by higher average equity markets |
| Industry volatility is down 25% to 40% across developed markets and emerging markets relative to the period a year ago, and down 5% to 10% sequentially, which is presenting fewer trading opportunities and lower spreads |
| So the industry has been seeing servicing fee rate pressure for a while |
| And then there's some amount of fee headwinds, which is about 2% a year that we've described |
| You can just do a little bit of comparison and we'd be cautious about doing it for every quarter |
| So you'd say, hey, where is that? Part of that was about 3 percentage points of headwind came from lower client volumes and activity, right? A little bit of what we described as, we've seen less trading activity out there, which comes and goes, and tends to be cyclical |
| We've seen the trends in the largest, most sophisticated client and largest accounts come down quite a bit |
| And then as a follow-up, obviously, our industry, the world has gone through incredible turmoil in the last three or four years with the pandemic and such |
| We currently assume global equity markets will remain flat from now to quarter end, which implies the daily averages down about 3% quarter-on-quarter, bond markets are also expected to be down about 3% on average quarter-on-quarter |
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