Standard Chartered news and trends

Standard Chartered and Visa Partner on Cross-Border B2B Payments
B2B Payments // April 23, 2024

Standard Chartered has partnered with Visa to facilitate cross-border B2B payments for the bank’s corporate clients. The bank has joined the Visa B2B Connect multilateral payment network and has become Visa’s new settlement partner for a set of currencies, the companies said in a press release emailed to PYMNTS....

Interbank Pilot From Visa, Goldman and Others Seeks Real-World Blockchain Utility 
Blockchain // March 18, 2024

For the past 15 years, blockchain has been attempting to transform the global financial system. Or, if you listen to some of the earlier adherents of the digital asset sector, attempting to replace it. However, the inherently anonymous nature of the crypto industry’s web3 technology...

Standard Chartered Overhauls Investment Banking Leadership
Personnel // March 12, 2024

Standard Chartered has made a number of changes to its leadership team. The British banking giant announced Tuesday (March 11) that it had appointed Roberto Hoornweg, head of financial markets, and Sunil Kaushal, regional CEO for Africa and the Middle East, to serve as co-heads of corporate and investment...

Standard Chartered and SBI Create $100 Million Crypto Investment Firm
Cryptocurrency // November 09, 2023

Standard Chartered Ventures and SBI Holdings are forming a $100 million company to back cryptocurrency startups. The new venture will be based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and target market infrastructure, risk and compliance, decentralized finance (DeFi) and tokenization projects, the company told CoinDesk on Thursday (Nov....

Interviews & Exclusives
Report: Helping Banks Speed Payments Cross Border And Make A Clean Correspondent Bank Break

October 15, 2020
Cross-border payments are a necessary, yet often frustrating part of the world economy, with international transactions prone to overlapping government regulations, excessive fees and slow processing times. These difficulties are due to a process called correspondent banking, in which transactions must also be funneled through multiple financial institutions (FIs) before they reach their final destinations. […]

Quick Reads
British Banks Cut Costs as Interest Rates Begin to Decline

August 02, 2024
The largest banks in the United Kingdom are reportedly cutting costs to protect profits as interest rates begin to decline. The moves come as the Bank of England voted this week to cut rates for the first time in four years and signaled that there are more cuts on the way, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. […]

Standard Chartered and Visa Partner on Cross-Border B2B Payments

April 23, 2024
Standard Chartered has partnered with Visa to facilitate cross-border B2B payments for the bank’s corporate clients. The bank has joined the Visa B2B Connect multilateral payment network and has become Visa’s new settlement partner...

Standard Chartered Overhauls Investment Banking Leadership

March 12, 2024
Standard Chartered has made a number of changes to its leadership team. The British banking giant announced Tuesday (March 11) that it had appointed Roberto Hoornweg, head of financial markets, and Sunil Kaushal,...

Standard Chartered and SBI Create $100 Million Crypto Investment Firm

November 09, 2023
Standard Chartered Ventures and SBI Holdings are forming a $100 million company to back cryptocurrency startups. The new venture will be based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and target market infrastructure, risk...