Standard Chartered
British financial services company
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| March 2025 | Standard Chartered launched an exclusive investment platform club for ultra-high-net-worth clients as part of business restructuring. |
| March 2025 | Zarin Daruwala is set to retire as CEO of Standard Chartered India after a long-serving tenure since 2016. |
| February 2025 | Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands, and Hong Kong Telecom established a joint venture to issue an HKD-backed stablecoin. |
| 2024 | Standard Chartered India sold its 41 billion rupees personal loan portfolio to Kotak Mahindra Bank as part of a strategic refresh. |
| June 2024 | Legal documents filed in a New York court allege that Standard Chartered Bank facilitated over $100 billion in transactions between 2008-2013, potentially breaching sanctions against Iran and supporting international terror groups, based on whistleblower testimony from former employee Julian Knight. |
| November 2023 | The Competition Commission fined Standard Chartered R42.7 million rand after an 8-year litigation for currency pair manipulation, with the bank assuming liability for its actions between 2007 and 2013. |
| July 2022 | Final sponsorship extension with Liverpool Football Club, running until the end of the 2026-27 season. |
| January 2021 | The Reserve Bank of India imposed a fine of ₹2 crore on Standard Chartered Bank-India for delays in mandatory regulatory fraud reporting. |
| August 2020 | Standard Chartered was fined $13.6 million by the Enforcement Directorate in India for foreign exchange rule violations related to its 2007 takeover of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited. |
| April 2020 | Standard Chartered was fined £20.4 million by the UK's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation for providing loans to DenizBank, a Turkish bank under EU financial sanctions related to its majority ownership by Sberbank of Russia. |
| April 2019 | Potential settlement of approximately $1 billion for investigations in the US and UK was reported. |
| April 9 2019 | Standard Chartered paid a $1.1 billion fine to the UK Government and US Department of the Treasury for deficiencies in its money laundering control regime and violations of financial sanctions against multiple countries including Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Sudan, Syria, and Iran. |
| May 2018 | Third sponsorship extension with Liverpool Football Club, extending through the 2022-23 season. |
| April 2017 | Institutional Shareholder Services criticized the bank's long-term incentive plan targets for top executives. |
| 2016 | Zarin Daruwala began her tenure as CEO of Standard Chartered India. |
| 2016 | Standard Chartered announced it would stop providing loans to the midstream segment of the diamonds and jewellery industries. |
| 2015 | Standard Chartered India announced its intention to become a wholly owned subsidiary, though this plan was never materialized. |
| 2015 | Second sponsorship extension with Liverpool Football Club through the 2018-19 season. |
| November 2015 | The bank announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs, including 1,000 senior positions. |
| January 2015 | Standard Chartered announced it was exiting the equity capital markets business completely. |
| September 2014 | Standard Chartered was named The Banker's inaugural Global and European Transaction Bank of the Year. |
| August 19 2014 | The bank was fined $300 million by the New York Department of Financial Services for money-laundering compliance breaches. |
| 2013 | Standard Chartered concluded its period of manipulating the rand exchange rate. |
| 2013 | First sponsorship extension with Liverpool Football Club through the 2015-16 season. |
| August 14 2012 | Standard Chartered reached a settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services, agreeing to pay a $340 million fine and install a monitor for money laundering controls. |
| August 6 2012 | New York Department of Financial Services accused Standard Chartered of hiding $250 billion in transactions involving Iran. |
| December 2010 | Standard Chartered was recognized as the Global Bank of the Year in The Banker's Bank of the Year 2010 awards. |
| June 17 2010 | Standard Chartered Bank entered into a strategic alliance with Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) to identify joint business opportunities. |
| May 13 2010 | Standard Chartered PLC launched the first-ever Indian Depository Receipt (IDR) offer. |
| April 27 2010 | Standard Chartered announced an agreement to purchase the African custody business from Barclays PLC. |
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