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Standard Chartered has lost a managing director and senior private banker in Hong Kong. Phoebe Chow has left Standard Chartered Private Bank, sources said after more than four years with the British lender. When contacted, a spokesperson for the bank declined…
Standard Chartered bank is reportedly considering slashing office space in the Singapore business district, where it occupies 21 floors at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 1. While plans are under discussion and subject to change, sources told «Bloomberg»…
The bank is doubling down on its commitment to the payments industry with its investment in a global cross-border payments platform. SC Ventures, the innovation, ventures and fintech investments unit of Standard Chartered bank, has made a strategic investment…
The bank will offer integrated front-to-back office investment management solutions to mutual clients across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East on the Aladdin platform. Standard Chartered has become the latest bank to ink a strategic partnership with…
The bank has made a pair of Singapore-based senior appointments to its Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB) segment as it increases its focuses on growing this business. Former regional head of client coverage, CCIB, ASEAN and South Asia,…
Standard Chartered promotes a 25-year financial markets veteran internally to become its chief investment officer based in Singapore, according to an internal memo. Standard Chartered appoints Steve Brice as its new chief investment officer, according to an…
The recognition comes on the back of the U.K.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, signed on Thursday. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has granted Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) enhanced Significantly Rooted Foreign Bank (SRFB) privileges, in…
The bank has hired a new regional head to replace its outgoing regional head, Private Banking West. Standard Chartered has appointed Grant Parkinson as regional head of its private banking business for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, the bank said in a…
Announced in March, the Financing and Securities Services (FSS) unit brings together Securities Services (previously under Transaction Banking) and Portfolio Risk Management in the Financial Markets business. Standard Chartered Bank on Thursday named its FSS…
Standard Chartered and Juwai IQI have announced a partnership across their networks to redefine the client experience of banking and property investment. Juwai IQI’s real estate agent network IQI Global has 10,000 agents across offices in 15 countries, while…
As its preferred cloud platform provider, Microsoft will help the bank make its vision for virtual banking, next-generation payments, open banking and banking-as-a-service a reality. Standard Chartered has established a three-year strategic partnership with…
The bank’s ventures and innovation platform is reportedly building a crypto custody offering for the institutional market, with a pilot planned for later this year. SC Ventures developing a venture to meet the demands of institutional investors for an…
Assets under management within recommended healthcare funds surged at Standard Chartered Private Bank as part of a broader trend of increasing adoption in sustainable investing. Recommended healthcare fund AUMs surged 50 percent year-on-year, according to a…
A Singapore-based banker was surprised to be asked highly personal questions when he applied for a job at the U.K. lender. Standard Chartered’s reasoning is unconventional. The London-based bank’s procedure for job applicants is pretty standard: an employment…
Standard Chartered’s digital banking and investment platforms have been given a boost by the Covid-19 pandemic, as digital adoption rates in Singapore hit historic highs in the first four months of 2020. Digital sign-up for credit cards growing by 71 percent…
The new Financing and Securities Services unit brings together Securities Services (currently under Transaction Banking) and Portfolio Risk Management in the Financial Markets business. Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Margaret Harwood-Jones, currently…
