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Standard Chartered expands UAE Bitcoin and Ether spot trading
03 September 2026 UAE
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Standard Chartered DIFC’s regional offering builds on its broader digital asset strategy, spanning custody, trading, and tokenisation capabilities through its corporate and investment bank

Standard Chartered issues DNNs on Euroclear’s D-FMI
21 August 2026 UK, Singapore
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The US$200 million three-year floating-rate digitally native notes transaction makes Standard Chartered the first G-SIB to issue on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure

HSBC and Standard Chartered execute first live tokenised deposit transaction on Swift’s ledger
19 August 2026 UK
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

The firms say this transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger marks a milestone for the use of tokenised deposits by regulated financial institutions to issue, transfer, record, and settle tokenised deposits

United Fintech appoints three new partners
11 August 2026 UK
Reporter: Theodore Law

Guy Hopkins, Rasmus Bagger, and Darren Coote will join the firm as new partners, with two joining United Fintech’s senior leadership team

FCA and BoE appoint members to post-trade taskforce
27 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The taskforce aims to inform a long-term approach to harmonising transaction and post-trade reporting requirements across UK MiFIR, UK EMIR, UK SFTR

Swift’s blockchain-based ledger ready for use
10 July 2026 Belgium
Reporter: Matthew Challis

According to Swift, 17 banks from six continents are preparing to pilot live transactions, with its shared ledger providing a secure orchestration layer for bank-issued tokenised deposits on their own infrastructure

Standard Chartered and LMAX Group join forces
01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Standard Chartered has executed digital asset prime brokerage trades with LMAX Group, demonstrating a digital asset intermediation model for spot Bitcoin and Ether with T+1 settlement

Standard Chartered makes new appointments in Europe
30 June 2026 UK, Europe
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Margaret Harwood-Jones has been appointed as CEO for Europe and UK and Jörg Hessenmüller as CEO for SCB AG

Clearstream to open Kenya market link
25 June 2026 Kenya
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The domestic link will provide institutional investors with access to the local market through a unique omnibus account structure, supporting Kenyan government bonds, and treasury bills.

Standard Chartered completes inaugural QFI investment
28 May 2026 China
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The bank acted in dual capacities as both the QFI’s custodian and futures margin depository bank, supporting the end-to-end execution of the trade in China Government Bond futures

Standard Chartered to acquire Zodia Custody
18 May 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Under the proposed acquisition, Zodia Custody’s regulated custody activities will be integrated into Standard Chartered’s existing digital asset custody business

OKX launches a joint framework with Standard Chartered and BlackRock
28 April 2026 UAE
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The framework enables OKX clients to hold collateral in regulated, off-exchange custody while trading on the same integrated venue