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Company announcement/payments

Finmo goes live with global currency accounts enabled by Standard Chartered

Finmo, the modern Treasury Operating System for global businesses, has partnered with Standard Chartered, a leading international banking group, to launch Global Currency Account (GCA) capabilities that enable businesses to manage pay-ins, pay-outs, and foreign exchange with greater control and visibility across markets.

13 November 2025

News/payments

Standard Chartered to support DCS stablecoin card

Standard Chartered has joined with DCS as the principal banking partner for DeCard, a next-generation credit card enabling seamless stablecoin spending in the real world.

11 November 2025

News/crypto

Blockchain to 'eventually' power all transactions - StanChart CEO

Bill Winters, the chief executive of UK bank Standard Chartered, has stated that nearly all transactions will be settled on the blockchain, eventually.

04 November 2025

Company announcement/payments

Standard Chartered partners Dandelion on real-time cross-border payments

Standard Chartered has partnered with Dandelion Payments, a Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT) company, to enhance the Bank’s low-value global disbursements proposition.

24 October 2025

Company announcement/payments

Standard Chartered expand cross-border payment capabilities with Visa Direct

Standard Chartered has deepened its collaboration with Visa by integrating with Visa Direct to enhance cross-border, low-value global disbursements with greater speed, transparency, and cost efficiency.

15 October 2025

Company announcement/crypto

OKX and Standard Chartered expand digital asset partnership into Europe

Standard Chartered, a leading cross-border international banking group, and OKX, a leading digital assets exchange and global on-chain technology company, today announced their partnership into the European Economic Area (EEA).

15 October 2025

Company announcement/ai

Standard Chartered launches tech training initiative for staff

Standard Chartered (“the Bank”) will accelerate training in areas such as generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) and data among its workforce in Singapore and globally, as part of its vision to harness the power of technology to drive innovation, improve efficiencies and create new skills pathways for its employees.

13 October 2025

News/Sibos

Sibos 2025: UN and banks call for climate investment shift

What is the role of public and private investment in sustainable finance? How can green bonds and blended finance achieve sustainable development goals? These questions were answered in a sustainable policy panel, titled ‘Prudence, purpose, and profit; Balancing returns, impact, and risk’ at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt.

01 October 2025

News/payments

Ant International, Standard Chartered and Swift collaborate on bank-to-wallet payment system

Standard Chartered and Ant International have commenced live production trials for a bank-to-wallet payment service that uses the ISO 20022 financial messaging standards and Swift infrastrucuture.

27 August 2025

Company announcement/ai

Standard Chartered and Ant International extend AI collaboration effort

Standard Chartered and Ant International today announced a new collaboration to introduce an AI-Powered Treasury and FX Management Solution that integrates Ant International’s Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) Model with Standard Chartered’s Aggregated Liquidity Engine (SCALE).

26 August 2025

Company announcement/regulation

Standard Chartered and Anchorpoint to apply for Hong Kong stablecoin licence

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited (“SCBHK”) has established a joint venture, Anchorpoint Financial Limited (“Anchorpoint”) in Hong Kong, together with Animoca Brands and HKT, with the aim to build a business model focused on the issuance and advancement of licensed stablecoins.

08 August 2025

News/sustainable

Standard Chartered signs five year carbon credit agreement with Brazilian state

The initiative supports the COP30 Presidency’s goal of accelerating climate finance for forests and developing economies. Brazil, as host nation, is placing strong emphasis on halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030.

08 August 2025