What is Standard Chartered? - Explained

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1. What is Standard Chartered?

Standard Chartered is a financial institution that provides banking and financial services in a wide range. Standard Chartered offers services including credit cards, consumer banking services, corporate banking services, investment banking, mortgage loans, private banking services, and wealth management services.

Standard Chartered Bank does offer their services in a wide range of regions and countries in the world. Standard Chartered bank is popular mostly in the European and Asian regions.

2. History

Standard Chartered is a bank formed as a merger of two banks which were named as Standard Bank and Chartered Bank in 1969. Standard Chartered is currently headquartered in London, England, UK, and traded publicly on the London Stock Exchange, Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and National Stock Exchange of India.