State Street Chairman & CEO Ronald Logue and Chief Financial Officer Edward Resch to Speak at Merrill Lynch Banking & Financial Services Conference

October 31, 2008

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced today that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ronald E. Logue and its Chief Financial Officer Edward J. Resch will speak at the Merrill Lynch Banking and Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, November 11, at 9:40 a.m. EST.

The presentations will be accessible on State Street's investor relations home page at www.statestreet.com/stockholder. A recorded replay of the presentations will be available on the Investor Relations website beginning later that day. The webcast replay will be available for approximately two weeks.

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors, including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $14 trillion in assets under custody and $1.7 trillion in assets under management at September 30, 2008, State Street operates in 26 countries and more than 100 geographic markets worldwide and employs 28,950 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street's web site at www.statestreet.com or call 877/639-7788 (NEWS STT) toll-free in the United States and Canada, or +1 678/999-4577 outside those countries.

Source: State Street Corporation

Contact: State Street Corporation S. Kelley MacDonald, +1 617-664-3477 or Hannah Grove, +1 617-664-3377