Abstract: A method of handling read transactions to improve latency and promote streaming across a bridge. When an initiator returns to retrieve the read data associated with a previously enqueued transaction, the bridge will insert one or more wait states if the enqueued transaction is being mastered and no data has been received in a buffer of the bridge from the target, or if some but not a sufficient amount of data has been received from the target. The bridge continues to hold the initiator until the buffer contains sufficient read data whereupon the bridge will deliver the read data from the buffer to the initiator.