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Standard Chartered and NTUC enter into joint venture
07 September 2021 Singapore
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

SC Bank Solutions will become Standard Chartered’s second separately licensed digital bank in Asia

Standard Chartered bolsters Europe & Americas securities services team
26 August 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Roman Mikolajczyk as head of private banks for its Europe & Americas, financing and securities services

Alexandre Kech steps down as Onchain Custodian CEO
25 August 2021 Singapore
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Based in Singapore, Kech is relocating to Europe for family reasons

BIS collaborates on digital green bond infrastructure
24 August 2021 Hong Kong
Reporter: Bob Currie

The aim is to build a digital infrastructure prototype that helps issuers and governments meet sustainability goals, with projects guided by experts from industry and civil society

Cheri McGuire joins SWIFT from Standard Chartered
04 August 2021 Germany
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“I am excited to join SWIFT at such a pivotal time as it is re-tooling cross-border infrastructure and fundamentally transforming payments and securities," says Cheri McGuire

Zodia Custody receives FCA registration
29 July 2021 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

SC Ventures and Northern Trust’s institutional cryptoasset custody solution, Zodia Custody, is now registered with the Financial Conduct Authority

Standard Chartered releases apprenticeship scheme to reduce employment barriers
28 July 2021 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Standard Chartered reveals its first front-office financial markets apprenticeship programme, which replaces academic qualification prerequisite with assessment materials to secure an ambitious talent pool

Nicholas Bone joins Delta Capita as head of post-trade sales
13 July 2021 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

New appointment aims to reinforce Delta Capita’s offering in post-trade managed services, which represents the next phase in its growth strategy

Six global banks to leverage SWIFT’s new transaction management platform
24 June 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The six banks are all preparing to use the platform’s expanded capabilities to enable new services, improve efficiency and reduce costs when the platform goes live in November 2022

Standard Chartered enhances securities services offering
15 June 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Temenos has extended its partnership with Standard Chartered to enhance the bank’s financing and securities services offering

Standard Chartered implements domestic mutual fund custody in China
10 June 2021 China
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The opening up of the market to international custodians has since created more options for domestic mutual and private funds

Standard Chartered named settlement bank for the Euro in Buna
09 June 2021 Abu Dhabi
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Standard Chartered has reached an agreement with the Arab Monetary Fund to serve as a settlement bank for the Euro currency in Buna, the cross-border payment system owned by the AMF