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...On Monday, Barclays pledged to return £10bn to shareholders over the next three years, while on Friday Standard Chartered said it would return $5bn over the same period....
...The group had already agreed about £930mn of debt deals in the past year, with lenders including Citi, Standard Chartered, Starwood and CBRE Investment Management....
...BBVA, JPMorgan and Standard Chartered were joint global co-ordinators and bookrunners on the TWF deal, while Bank of America, Emirates NBD Capital, ICBC, ING, QNB Capital and Société Générale are bookrunners...
...In Hong Kong, Standard Chartered’s headquarters is squashed next to HSBC’s. That reflects the bank’s smaller stature against a rival 7.5 times its size in terms of market value....
...Standard Chartered’s chief executive Bill Winters said the bank’s “crap” share price did not reflect its true value, as fourth-quarter profits surged almost tenfold....
...Standard Chartered’s outgoing head of investment banking has sold £9.64mn of shares days after the bank revealed he would be leaving amid a corporate shakeup....
...The head of Standard Chartered’s investment bank is leaving as part of a leadership overhaul designed to boost performance at the emerging markets lender....
...Big movers on the (record setting) European equity markets today include emerging markets-focused bank Standard Chartered, German airline Lufthansa and Swiss industrial group Georg Fischer....
...Standard Chartered shares fell sharply after it reported disappointing third-quarter profits, taking almost $900mn in charges linked to its exposure to China and warning that its lending margins were narrowing...
...“The authorities in Nigeria have successfully got the mechanics of a functioning [currency] market in place,” said Razia Khan, head of research for Africa and the Middle East at Standard Chartered....
...Standard Chartered announced a $1bn share buyback on Friday after the bank’s pre-tax profits rose in the fourth quarter of last year....
...Rising interest rates and strong trading performance propelled Standard Chartered to a better than expected second quarter, with the bank’s pre-tax profit rising 27 per cent....
...Earnings: Results are due from German chemicals group BASF, UK emerging market-focused bank Standard Chartered and German telco Deutsche Telekom....
...A handful of Wall Street banks and other rivals such as Standard Chartered have since applied to buy out partners or set up shop with full control of their brokerages, with approvals trickling through....
...A $3bn charge on HSBC’s stake in China’s Bank of Communications, in which it has a 19 per cent holding, is significantly larger than the charge peer Standard Chartered has taken on its China bank stake,...
...Standard Chartered has sounded out UK political heavyweights Sir Charles Roxburgh and Sir Sajid Javid as potential candidates for its next chair, BP reported its second-biggest annual profit in a decade,...
...The Saudi group will also fund the repayment of $2.9bn of financing from the aircraft leasing and financing unit to Standard Chartered....
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...A recent report by Bain & Company, GenZero, Standard Chartered and Temasek said the region had seen $45bn in investments in green projects since 2021 but required an estimated $1.5tn by the end of the decade...
...Research from the Royal Bank of Canada shows that about C$900bn* worth of mortgages — almost 60 per cent of all outstanding mortgages at chartered banks in Canada — will need to be refinanced between 2024...
...The head of Standard Chartered’s investment bank Simon Cooper is leaving as part of a leadership overhaul designed to boost performance at the emerging markets lender....
...“It’s supply-and-demand with geopolitics thrown in on top,” said Paul Horsnell, global head of commodities at Standard Chartered....
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