Standard Chartered Bank

340 results about this entity

Period: 17 Nov 2006 - 16 May 2024

/sustainable

DBS, SGX, Standard Chartered and Temasek team on carbon exchange

DBS, Singapore Exchange, Standard Chartered and Temasek are creating a global exchange and marketplace for carbon credits.

/payments

Standard Chartered to offer escrow-as-a-service in tandem with Tazapay and Proxtera

Standard Chartered has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with payments startup Tazapay to deliver digital escrow services to buyers and sellers looking to trade globally on Proxtera, a business-to-business marketplace network.

/retail

Standard Chartered takes axe to branches and offices

Standard Chartered plans to halve its global branch network and slash its office space by around a third as it adjusts to a post-pandemic, digital-first world.

/payments

Standard Chartered backs CurrencyFair-Assembly Payments merger

Dublin-based money transfer outfit CurrencyFair is merging with Australia's Assembly Payments thanks to a strategic investment from Standard Chartered. Financial details were not disclosed.

/markets

Standard Chartered and Bloomberg to introduce Electronic Trading Workflow for Korea Treasury Bonds

Bloomberg and Standard Chartered today introduced an electronic trading workflow for Korea Treasury Bonds, enabling investors to efficiently access global and domestic sources of liquidity on the Bloomberg Terminal.

/markets

Standard Chartered allies with BlackRock's Aladdin platform

Standard Chartered has entered into a strategic partnership with BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to offer integrated front-to-back office investment management solutions to mutual clients across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

/wholesale

Standard Chartered taps Gloat to create virtual internal marketplace for workforce

Standard Chartered Bank (“the Bank”), and Gloat have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to enhance the Bank’s ability to use the best of their colleagues’ skills and experience for the good of its clients.

/startups

SIA and Standard Chartered join Frankfurt Main Finance initiative

The financial centre initiative Frankfurt Main Finance e. V. welcomed three new members at the turn of the year.

/wholesale

Standard Chartered goes live on Cobalt

Standard Chartered has gone live on Cobalt’s foreign exchange market infrastructure platform for its prime brokerage and executing broking business.

/sustainable

Standard Chartered appoints head of sustainable finance for Greater China and North Asia

Standard Chartered announced plans to increase its push into supporting clients across Asia, Africa and the Middle East with sustainable financing by appointing a Head of Sustainable Finance for Greater China and North Asia, effective today.

/wholesale

SC Ventures invest in OpenFin

OpenFin, the operating system (OS) of finance, announced today that it secured a strategic investment from SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm of international banking group, Standard Chartered.

/crypto

Northern Trust and StanChart partner for crypto custody service

Asset servicer Northern Trust and Standard Chartered have sought to capitalise on the growing demand for cryptocurrency services by jointly developing a digital custody service aimed at institutional investors.

/wholesale

SC Ventures launches trade finance startup

SC Ventures, the innovation, ventures and fintech investments unit of Standard Chartered, today announced the commercial launch of SOLV, a full-stack B2B marketplace for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in India.

/retail

StanChart completes blockchain bond project in Philippines

A blockchain proof of concept for the digital issuance of retail bonds in the Philippines has been successfully completed by Standard Chartered.

/cloud

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella on how to build partnerships ‘beyond two ships passing in the night’

Months after striking a deal with Microsoft to become a ‘cloud-first’ bank and migrate all core applications to the cloud by 2025, Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered joins Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 to discuss resilience, the future of digital transformation and why a good partnership is central to achieving this.

/cloud

Standard Chartered to put customer-facing applications in the cloud

Standard Chartered Bank has struck a five-year deal with Amazon Web Services to run its strategic banking systems and customer-facing applications in 60 markets on AWS.

/retail

Standard Chartered moves to hybrid working

Standard Chartered is the latest bank to rethink its attitude towards the office in the wake of Covid-19, committing to a hybrid approach that lets employees mix up where they work.

/startups

Nadifin fintech accelerator announces 2020 cohort

After 120+ applications from around the globe, the NadiFin Fintech Accelerator Program powered by MiddleGame Ventures, in partnership with Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) and Standard Chartered, announces its latest cohort of 10 early stage fintech companies (summarized below).

/startups

Hong Kong virtual bank Mox signs 35,000 customers in first month

Standard Chartered-supported Hong Kong virtual bank Mox has signed up 35,00 customers within its first month of operation.

/security

SC Ventures invests in cyber-security outfit Secret Double Octopus

Standard Chartered's fintech investment unit SC Ventures has made an undisclosed investment in passwordless authentication outfit Secret Double Octopus.