Latest Standard Chartered Bank News: Finextra Research

Standard Chartered taps Demica for new supplier finance portal

Standard Chartered is to ease enrollments to its supplier finance programme through an online platform delivered by Demica.

12 October 2021

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Standard Chartered moves to accelerate API adoption by corporate treasury teams

Standard Chartered is working with fintech FinLync to help corporate treasury and finance teams connect to the bank's API offerings.

05 October 2021

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Standard Chartered joins crypto-focused Global Digital Finance alliance

Standard Chartered has become the first bank to join the Global Digital Finance (GDF) Patron Board, an alliance of firms working collaboratively to raise the standards for custody, settlement finality, and brokerage across the crypto and digital assets landscape.

01 September 2021

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Standard Chartered and Linklogis team on trade finance platform

Standard Chartered and Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis have formed a joint venture to build a trade finance origination and distribution platform.

30 August 2021

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Standard Chartered and Northern Trust cryptocustody JV wins FCA approval

Zodia Custody, a digital asset joint venture operation between Standard Chartered and Northern Trust, has received regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority and is now providing commercial services to clients as a cryptoasset business.

29 July 2021

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Standard Chartered poaches Louwhoff from ING to lead digital operations

Standard Chartered has raided ING Bank for a new chief digital, technology and innovation officer to replace outgoing CIO Michael Gorriz.

18 June 2021

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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.

21 May 2021

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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.

07 April 2021

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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.

07 January 2021

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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.

09 December 2020

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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.

07 December 2020

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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.

07 December 2020

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