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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 .
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 Standard Chartered Bank of Canada was the Canadian banking unit of the British Standard Chartered Bank. Standard Chartered bank was created by a merger of Standard Bank of British South Africa (1862) and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (1853) in 1969. [1] It quit Canada in the 1990s, selling its two retail branches to Bank ...
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 (known as Chartered Bank), a British bank established in 1853 was established in Penang in 1875. It is the oldest bank branch in Malaysia, [3] and was the leading bank in colonial Malaya, [4] later, in 1969, merging with Standard Bank to form Standard Chartered Bank .
In 1969, the Standard Bank merged with Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China and the combined bank became known as Standard Chartered Bank. Subsequent use of name. In South Africa, the Standard Bank Investment Corporation (now Standard Bank Group) was established as the holding company of The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited ...
Standard Chartered Kenya is a large financial services provider in Kenya. As of December 2013, the bank's total assets were valued at about US$2.539 billion (KES:220.39 billion), with shareholders' equity of about US$417.1 million (KES:36.2 billion). [6] At that time, Standard Chartered Kenya was the 4th largest bank, by assets, out of the 43 ...
Simon Cooper is a British banker. Since 2018 he has been the chief executive officer of the Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking division of Standard Chartered, its largest global business with approximately USD10 billion in underlying operating income. [1] He also is CEO of the bank’s Europe and Americas region and is chairman of ...