Tagged: standard chartered

February 14, 2020 @ 7:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, announced on Thursday it has joined forces with the Imperial College Business School for a new climate risk management partnership.   According to Standard Chartered, the collaboration aims to discover new… Read More

February 11, 2020 @ 12:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with Assembly Payments to set up a new joint venture to deliver next-generation payment solutions for the global e-commerce industry.  According to the duo,… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 1:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multinational financial giant Standard Chartered (SC) has teamed up with Infor, an established business cloud software firm, in order to digitize the financial industry supply chain for SC’s customers. By using the “Infor Nexus” network, created by New York-headquartered Infor, SC aims to assist its… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 8:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, announced on Tuesday it has made an investment in Contour, a blockchain-based open industry platform that will initially focus on digitally creating, exchanging, approving and issuing Letters of Credit (LCs). … Read More

January 9, 2020 @ 11:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, announced on Thursday its strategic investment into Linklogis, a Chinese supply chain financing platform, to enhance its joint supply chain ecosystem proposition and provide suppliers with access to affordable and… Read More

January 8, 2020 @ 1:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, announced on Tuesday the launch of SC GPI Track, which is described as a publicly accessible portal that offers the ability to trace all cross-border payments cleared through Standard Chartered’s… Read More

November 15, 2019 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Standard Chartered, a multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, has teamed up with Quantexa, a contextual decision intelligence software developer, in order to enhance the bank’s anti-financial crime efforts. Quantexa’s management says the company will support Standard Chartered’s financial… Read More

November 15, 2019 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Silent Eight, a Singapore-based regulatory technology (Regtech) company, announced on November 14 that it had raised an oversubscribed $6.2 million through a Series A investment round. The funds raised will be used to recruit new talent in order to support Silent Eight’s new clients who… Read More

November 9, 2019 @ 6:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking giant Standard Chartered has reportedly joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a global standards organization that outlines the specifications for developing large-scale, interoperable blockchain platforms. The EEA is planning to conduct further research and development (R&D) into the latest trends involving distributed ledger technology… Read More

October 18, 2019 @ 7:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered announced on Thursday it is set to offer clients an extensive range of cash management services out of London and Frankfurt covering the UK and Eurozone countries, following investment in a new cash management infrastructure. According Standard Chartered, the infrastructure is currently scheduled… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 10:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered announced on Tuesday it has formed a strategic agreement with Traydstream to introduce its digital trade document matching services to the Bank’s clients, which is claimed to deliver increased efficiency and transparency to document trade processing and improving the trade finance experience for… Read More

August 7, 2019 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank announced on Wednesday it has successfully executed a pilot transaction for PTT Group, PTT International Trading Pte Ltd and IRPC Public Company Limited. Standard Chartered reported that due to the significant cargo value, oil companies are often reliant on Letters of Credit… Read More

August 5, 2019 @ 1:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank announced on Monday that it and Linklogis have recently completed their first joint deep-tier supply chain financing transaction for Digital Guangdong and its upstream suppliers. According to Standard Chartered, the transaction is included in the ongoing strategic collaboration between the two parties since… Read More

June 22, 2019 @ 3:20 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Online Insurance Platform Wukongbao Secures a New Round of Financing from 58 Group, Plum Ventures and Yeepay On June 20th, online insurance platform Wukongbao announced that it had received a new round of financing. Participants in the investment included 58 Group, Yeepay, and Plum Ventures…. Read More

April 15, 2019 @ 8:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank announced last week it has launched an expanded online gateway and mobile app for corporate clients, to additional markets in Asia to further support its clients’ growing e-commerce and m-commerce aspirations. According to Standard Chartered, the gateway is now available in China,… Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 7:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank announced on Monday it has officially opened its Africa eXellerator Innovation Hub in Kenya. According to the digital bank, the innovation hub will serve asa platform to collaborated with fintechs in Kenya, as well as the broader African region to drive innovation… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 4:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank Limited, PCCW Limited, HKT Trust and HKT Limited, and Ctrip Financial Management Co., Limited announced on Wednesday the establishment of a strategic joint venture to deliver a new standalone digital retail bank in Hong Kong. According to the organizations, this new joint… Read More

March 18, 2019 @ 10:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered announced on Monday that its venture unit, SC Ventures, has created a market-first platform, called SC Ventures Fintech Bridge, to connect community builders such as start-ups, investors and accelerators to the Bank. According to Standard Chartered, SC Ventures Fintech Bridge connects and matches… Read More

March 14, 2019 @ 8:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered announced on Thursday it is set to launch an open platform for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India to provide access to a range of financial and business solutions. Standard Chartered reported that this is one of the disruptive business ventures being… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 9:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank announced on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Linklogis to explore opportunities to enhance its supply chain financing proposition and deepen client relationships in China. Standard Chartered reported that it will use Linklogis’ force as a digital blockchain-enabled supply chain… Read More