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SEC Probes State Street Foreign-Exchange Pricing

May 12, 2011

State Street, the third-largest custody bank, is being investigated by SEC over its pricing of some foreign-exchange services, an issue that has drawn legal action from whistle-blowers and state officials.

The disclosure made in a regulatory filing made public May 9, comes after the firm has been sued by California and the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System for alleged fraud. The suits claim State Street secretly marked up the price of some foreign- exchange transactions. Those and similar suits against Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BK) have brought scrutiny to currency transactions that could lead to lower revenue across the industry.

State Street says its cooperating with the investigation.  [Bloomberg 5/12/11]