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Perrin appointed as Managing Director, FI Solutions
02 September 2025 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Craig Perrin brings over 20 years experience in leadership roles and working across the securities services and institutional banking sectors

Ant International and Standard Chartered conduct live trials for Alipay+
29 August 2025 Singapore
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The solution leverages the Swift network to connect to 1.7 billion user accounts on the 36 global digital wallets in the Alipay+ ecosystem

KuCoin forms strategic collaboration with AlloyX
15 August 2025
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The alliance will launch real-world asset (RWA) tokens into the exchange’s collateral channels intending to improve user asset property and liquidity

JellyC joins OKX and Standard Chartered collateral programme
06 August 2025 Australia
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Australasian digital asset investment manager will use cryptocurrencies and a tokenised money market fund as off-exchange collateral for trading on the OKX platform

Standard Charter launches a fully integrated digital assets trading service
16 July 2025 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The offering includes spot trading for bitcoin and ether through its UK branch

Harwood-Jones becomes Chair of ISSA Board
09 May 2025 US
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

In addition to her new responsibilities as chair, Margaret Harwood-Jones currently acts as global head of financing and securities services at Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered and OKX create collateral programme
10 April 2025 Dubai
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

The initiative also aims to enhance security and capital efficiency through the use of a globally systemically important bank (G-SIB) as the collateral custodian

Standard Chartered signs MoU to join SIX Digital Exchange
25 March 2025 Switzerland
Reporter: Jack McRae

The bank will join SDX’s Central Securities Depository platform for digital asset custody

Regnology acquires Heywood Business Analysts
07 March 2025 South Africa
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The acquisition will integrate Heywood’s expertise in regulatory reporting and system integration with Regnology’s suite of regulatory, risk, and supervisory technology solutions

Standard Chartered supports ChinaAMC (HK)
13 February 2025 Hong Kong
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

The fund will have ChinaAMC (HK) as its digital asset provider and Standard Chartered Trustee (Hong Kong) as the open-ended fund company custodian

MarketAxess appoints Hoornweg to risk and finance committees
28 January 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Roberto Hoornweg brings global financial markets expertise, fixed-income knowledge, and leadership experience from several financial institutions to the post

Taskize appoints Verrent as Product Manager
24 January 2025 UK
Reporter: Klea Neza

Joseph Verrent has over a decade of experience in banking operations and financial technology