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Information to be removed: 1=Corporate Affairs Information to be added:1=Corporate Affairs Standard Chartered Bank has around 80,000 employees and 59 markets. The Bank is organised into four regions – Greater China & North Asia, ASEAN & South Asia, Africa & Middle East and Europe & Americas – and by four client segments: Corporate & Institutional Banking, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking and Private Banking. Explanation of issue: There was a restructure of the company upon the new onboarding of our CEO, Bill Winters in June 2015. The business was reorganised and the above information is our current working model. References supporting change: https://www.sc.com/en/people/bill-winters/ Information to be removed: 2=Financial Technology Standard Chartered Breeze Standard Chartered Breeze is a mobile banking application for the iPhone & iPad that can also be used on the computer. It is largely similar to the online banking services offered by other banks, with the exception of its function to issue electronic bank cheques. Launched in the summer of 2010 and aggressively marketed, the reviews have been generally positive. In addition, it has attracted an uncommon amount of attention due to many innovative marketing strategies it used to promote its product, mostly focusing on social media. Standard Chartered Breeze organised a blogger's meet for bloggers to preview Breeze, and its Twitter campaign to give away a free iPad was extremely successful.[58] SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator Standard Chartered's primary engagement with the fintech community is focused in Hong Kong, working closely with and co-ordinated by 'The eXellerator'. The SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator, along with main partners, Standard Chartered Bank (a founding member) and Fidelity International, has twice conducted programmes enabling international growth-stage companies to expand their operations within Asia. Standard Chartered Bank has initiated proof of concept projects with two companies: Bambu and KYC Chain.[59] Information to be added:Financial Technology Digitising banking
Standard Chartered innovates to digitise their products and services to improve the customer experience. Standard Chartered created Mox, a new virtual bank in Hong Kong, in partnership with HKT, PCCW and Trip.com. Launching in 2020, Mox aims to deliver a suite of retail banking services as well as lifestyle benefits all in one place, digitally. Standard Chartered launched their first digital-only retail bank in Africa in Côte d’Ivoire in 2018. Since then, the Bank has launched digital banks across nine markets in Africa, including Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. As a connector bank, facilitating trade and investment globally, Standard Chartered innovates, co-creates and partners with fintechs and technology companies to digitise trade and trade finance. Enabling Real-time Faster Payments is a core area of investment for Standard Chartered in line with the evolving needs of clients, particularly with the growth of e-commerce platforms and wallet apps. Standard Chartered was the First bank to offer the ability to trace all cross-border payments cleared through the Bank’s major clearing centres to its clients, as well as to their corporate and retail clients through a publicly accessible portal. Standard Chartered partnered Infor to digitise their clients’ financial supply chain so businesses can minimise supply chain delays and friction, while suppliers can benefit from improved access to capital. In addition, the bank invested into Contour (formerly known as Voltron), a blockchain-based open industry platform that will initially focus on digitally creating, exchanging, approving and issuing Letters of Credit. The Trade AI Engine launched as a joint solution developed in partnership with IBM was created to enhance the customer experience in trade document processing through increased operational efficiency and strengthened operational control. Standard Chartered’s aXess open banking platform drives more connectivity and partnerships between developers, corporates and fintechs, to co-create better client products and services through the sharing of APIs. Reinventing banking
Through its innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, SC Ventures, Standard Chartered is exploring avenues for rewiring the DNA in banking and transforming how people and companies engage with financial services. To encourage internal innovation and client co-creation, Standard Chartered set up innovation labs (eXellerator Labs) in Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Nairobi and San Francisco. The Bank also developed an internal intrapreneurship programme to bring employee business ideas to reality. Today, the bank is experimenting with disruptive business models to create optionality for the Bank.Standard Chartered launched Solv, a digital marketplace to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) grow by providing a range of financial and business services. Standard Chartered set up a new joint venture with Assembly Payments to deliver next generation payment solutions for the USD 29 trillion global e-commerce industry and launched nexus, a ‘banking as a service’ solution for consumer platforms, such as e-commerce, social media or ride hailing companies, so these companies can offer their own branded financial services to their customers. Investments
Standard Chartered, have taken minority stakes in promising Fintechs, including Ripple, Paxata, Symphony Communications, soCash, Digital Reasoning, Instabase, Silent Eight Fintech engagement
Standard Chartered launched SC Ventures Fintech Bridge, a market-first platform to connect community builders such as start-ups, investors and accelerators to the Bank. To empower women entrepreneurs in the technology space, Standard Chartered sponsors Women-in-Tech Incubator programmes in New York, Nairobi, Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. Explanation of issue: The technology stated here is outdated at the moment and Standard Chartered has advanced in terms of digital banking services in the last decade. [1] References supporting change: https://www.sc.com/en/about/technology-innovation/ [2] [3] Information to be removed: 3=Sponsorship The sponsorship amount to Liverpool FC. Explanation of issue: Liverpool Football Club and Standard Chartered Bank are pleased to announce a four-year extension to their main sponsor agreement, taking the Bank’s partnership with the Club through to the end of the 2022/23 season. The Bank first signed up as the Club’s main sponsor in July 2010, and the agreement was extended in 2013 and again in 2015. Financial terms of the agreement remain confidential. References supporting change: https://www.sc.com/en/media/press-release/weve-renewed-our-lfc-partnership/ Information to be removed: 4=Social Responsibility Standard Chartered, along with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, manages a charity called Seeing is Believing. The charity aims to eliminate preventable blindness in developing countries. Standard Chartered matches every dollar raised by the organization.[65] Information to be added:4=Social Responsibility Between 2003 and 2018, Standard Chartered raised USD100 million for Seeing is Believing, its global partnership with International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, to eliminate avoidable blindness in developing countries. The Bank will continue to support eye health programmes through SiB until the end of 2020. [Press release. “We’ve reached our USD100 million goal to tackle avoidable blindness”. sc.com. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2020.] In 2019, Standard Chartered launched Futuremakers by Standard Chartered to tackle inequality in its markets. It aims to raise USD50 million between 2019 and 2023 for community programmes that support disadvantaged young people to gain confidence, become job-ready or start a business. [Article. ‘Here come the Futuremakers.”sc.com. 20 February 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020. The Priority Academy program was created in 2006 by the bank, with educational programmes including a study tour of Shanghai, a summer internship programme and a study seminar in the United States. The program donated $250,000 to Chan Yik Hei, a science amateur who won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, for his studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.[66] In 2015, Standard Chartered was widely criticised for its $12bn funding of the controversial Carmichael Coal Mine, with a campaign led by Greenpeace calling for them to quit the project. The bank subsequentially withdrew from the deal.[67] Explanation of issue: Rewording of the paragraphs needed to include the amount raised to date to help the needy and young people to avoid blindness. References supporting change: https://seeingisbelieving.org/ [4] References
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