Standard Chartered PLC

What does Standard Chartered own?

Standard Chartered owns its international banking operations plus digital ventures including SC Ventures, Mox Bank, Trust Bank, and the Zodia digital asset businesses.

Is Standard Chartered publicly traded?

Yes. It trades on the London Stock Exchange under STAN and secondarily on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 2888.

Where is Standard Chartered headquartered?

The bank is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom, though almost all its income is generated in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

How many brands does Standard Chartered own?

Five principal ones: the Standard Chartered masterbrand, SC Ventures, Mox Bank, Trust Bank, and the Zodia digital asset ventures.

Who owns Standard Chartered?

Institutional and public shareholders own the bank. Temasek Holdings of Singapore is the largest at roughly 16 percent; no single investor controls it.

What is Standard Chartered's revenue?

Standard Chartered reported approximately $20 billion in operating income for 2025.

The bank was created in 1969 by merging two British overseas banks with colonial-era origins. The Standard Bank of British South Africa, founded in 1862, had built an African network, while the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, founded under royal charter in 1853, operated across Asia. Their combination produced a bank whose business was almost entirely outside Britain from the start.

Through the late 20th century Standard Chartered operated as a London-based international bank, surviving emerging-market crises and periodic takeover speculation while building its trade finance and Asian commercial banking franchise.

The 2008 financial crisis treated it relatively well: its Asian weighting and conservative balance sheet left it far less damaged than Western peers. The following years were harder. A 2012 settlement with US regulators over sanctions violations cost it hundreds of millions of dollars, and a stretch of weak returns and bad debts forced a restructuring under Bill Winters, who became CEO in 2015.

Winters cut costs, rebuilt the balance sheet, and eventually refocused the bank on cross-border corporate banking and affluent retail, its two strongest franchises. The strategy worked: by 2025 the bank reported approximately $20 billion in operating income with improving returns, and its shares roughly doubled from their 2024 lows through 2026 as emerging-market performance and wealth income grew.

Standard Chartered's most significant legal matter is the sanctions case resolved in 2012, when it paid $340 million to New York State and subsequently about $1.1 billion to US and UK authorities over allegations it processed transactions for Iranian clients in violation of sanctions. Deferred prosecution agreements related to the case ran for several years.

The bank operates under the ordinary compliance burden of a major international bank across dozens of developing markets, including AML and sanctions obligations, and has faced periodic emerging-market loan losses and conduct matters. No more recent penalties approach the scale of the 2012-era settlement.