STD Investor Relations & Company Overview - Standard Chartered PLC

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Price: 26.69 EUR 4.63% Market Closed

Market Cap: €44.9B

S	Standard Chartered PLC SWB:STD	UK

Company Overview

Business Description

Sector: Financials
Industry: Banking
Headquarters: United Kingdom UK
Employees: 81 832
IPO date: Feb 2, 1970

Standard Chartered is an international bank that focuses on corporate, institutional, and wealth clients across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. It helps companies move money across borders, finance trade, borrow for day-to-day operations, and manage foreign exchange and interest rate risk. It also offers banking and investment products for affluent individuals and families.

The bank makes money mainly from lending, payment services, trade finance, cash management, markets trading, and fees on wealth and transaction services. Its customers include multinational companies, local businesses, governments, financial institutions, and private banking clients. Because it specializes in cross-border business and in markets where trade flows are important, it plays a key role in connecting local economies to global finance.

Standard Chartered is different from a typical high-street bank because it is less focused on mass consumer banking and more focused on serving clients that need international reach. Its strength is in helping customers do business across currencies, countries, and regulatory systems. That makes it especially important for trade, payments, and financing in fast-growing emerging markets.

Standard Chartered PLC Investor Relations

1 Basinghall Avenue

London

United Kingdom

+442078858888 www.sc.com

Business Segments

Corporate and institutional banking

This part of Standard Chartered helps large companies, banks, governments, and other institutions move money, borrow, trade, and manage foreign exchange and cash. It covers lending, transaction banking, trade finance, markets, and capital market services.

Customers

Large corporate clients, financial institutions, government-related bodies, and other institutional clients, mainly across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Revenue Model

The bank earns money from lending interest, fees for payments and trade services, and income from foreign exchange, rates, and other market activities.

Wealth and retail banking

This part serves individual customers and smaller businesses with everyday banking, savings, cards, personal loans, mortgages, and wealth products such as investment and private banking services.