8-K

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report:     August 2, 2002

State Street Corporation

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Massachusetts	0-5108	04-2456637
(State of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification Number)

225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts	02110
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:   (617) 786-3000

Item 7.    Financial Statements and Exhibits.

            (c)     Exhibits.

            99.1     Cover letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission
            99.2     Written statement from principal executive officer dated August 1, 2002
            99.3     Written statement from principal financial officer dated August 1, 2002

Item 9.    Regulation FD Disclosure.

On August 2, 2002, in accordance with Order No. 4-460 of the Securities and Exchange Commission, sworn statements were submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer of State Street Corporation.  Copies of each sworn statement are furnished as Exhibits 99.2 and 99.3 to this report.

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

STATE STREET CORPORATION
By:   /s/Frederick P. Baughman
Name:	Frederick P. Baughman
Title:	Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

Date: August 2, 2002

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit

99.1     Cover letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission
99.2     Written statement from principal executive officer dated August 1, 2002
99.3     Written statement from principal financial officer dated August 1, 2002

EX-99.1

EXHIBIT 99.1

August 2, 2002

BY FACSIMILE (202-942-9651) AND OVERNIGHT COURIER

Mr. Jonathan G. Katz
Secretary
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20549-0609

Dear Mr. Katz:

Enclosed please find the sworn statements of State Street Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. David A. Spina and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Stefan M. Gavell, as required by Commission Order 4-460, Order Requiring the Filing of Sworn Statement Pursuant to Section 21 (a) (1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The listed “covered reports” in the enclosed statements include the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 22, 2002 and all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of State Street Corporation filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above (and any amendments to any of the foregoing), if filed on or before the date of this letter, including the Company’s Form 10-Q filed with the Commission today.

Also enclosed is a self-addressed stamped envelope. Please use this envelope to confirm your receipt of these filings.

Sincerely,

/s/David I. Porter

David I. Porter
Senior Vice President,
Global Financial Accounting and Reporting

EX-99.2

EXHIBIT 99.2

Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial
Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

I, David A. Spina, Chief Executive Officer of State Street Corporation, state and attest that:

(1)  To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of State Street Corporation, and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

•       no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

•       no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2)  I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Examining and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of State Street Corporation.

(3)  In this statement under oath, each of the following is a "covered report":

•       State Street Corporation’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on   February 22, 2002; 

•       State Street Corporation’s Definitive Proxy Materials on Form DEF 14A filed with the Commission on March 11, 2002;

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 12, 2002;

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 8-K filed with the Commission on April 30, 2002;

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on May 3, 2002; 

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on August 2, 2002;

•       any amendments to any of the foregoing.

/s/David A. Spina	Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of August 2002.
David A. Spina	/s/Roberta Galvin
August 1, 2002	My Commission Expires: April 19, 2007

EX-99.3

EXHIBIT 99.3

Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial
Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

I, Stefan M. Gavell, Chief Financial Officer of State Street Corporation, state and attest that:

(1)  To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of State Street Corporation, and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

•       no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

•       no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2)  I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Examining and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of State Street Corporation.

(3)  In this statement under oath, each of the following is a "covered report":

•       State Street Corporation’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 22, 2002;

•        State Street Corporation’s Definitive Proxy Materials on Form DEF 14A filed with the Commission on March 11, 2002;

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 12, 2002;

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 8-K filed with the Commission on April 30, 2002;

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on May 3, 2002;

•       State Street Corporation’s Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on August 2, 2002

•       any amendments to any of the foregoing.

/s/Stefan M. Gavell	Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of August 2002.
Stefan M. Gavell	/s/Janice R. Rainey
August 1, 2002	My Commission Expires: August 22, 2008