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Standard Chartered plc is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around 90% of its profits come from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East .
Grindlays Bank. The historic overseas bank was established in London in 1828 as Leslie & Grindlay, agents and bankers to the British army and business community in India. Banking operations expanded to include the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and elements of Africa and Southeast Asia. It was styled Grindlay, Christian & Matthews in 1839 ...
The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China—a bank incorporated in London, was founded in 1853 in London by James Wilson; following the grant of a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria. A 2008 stamp dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Standard Chartered Bank of India. In 1858, it opened its first branches in Calcutta, Bombay and Shanghai.
The bank now known as Standard Bank was formed in 1862 as a South African subsidiary of the British overseas bank Standard Bank, under the name The Standard Bank of South Africa . The bank's origins can be traced to 1862, when a group of businessmen led by the prominent South African politician John Paterson [5] [6] formed a bank in London ...
A public bank is a bank, a financial institution, in which a state, municipality, or public actors are the owners. It is an enterprise under government control. [1] Prominent among current public banking models are the Bank of North Dakota, the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe in Germany, and many nations’ postal bank systems.
The Indian Banks' Association ( IBA ), formed on (26 September 1946), is an unregistered, voluntary association of like-minded banks and individuals in India [1] —an representative body of Indian banks and financial institutions based in Mumbai. [2] With an initial membership of 22 banks in India in 1946, IBA currently represents 247 banking ...
Website. www .sc .com /tz. Standard Chartered Tanzania, whose official name is Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania Limited, but is often referred to as Stanchart Tanzania, is a commercial bank in Tanzania, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered. It is one of the banks licensed by the Bank of Tanzania, the national banking regulator.
Banknotes. Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited is one of the three commercial banks licensed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to issue banknotes in Hong Kong, the other two being the Bank of China (Hong Kong) and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The Bank has been issuing banknotes since the 1860s (as The Chartered Bank ...