Standard Chartered Plc

The London-based bank is giving up nine of the floors it leases at Marina Bay Financial Tower 1 in the business district.

Standard Chartered PLC is planning its second digital-only bank in Asia, teaming up with a unit of Singapore’s biggest labor union, according to people familiar with the matter.

SINGAPORE (Oct 10): DBS Group Holdings is considering joining the race to acquire PT Bank Permata, the Indonesian lender in which Standard Chartered Plc holds a stake, according to people familiar with the matter.

LONDON (June 6): Standard Chartered Plc plans to create two new hubs for its Asian operations in Singapore and Hong Kong to simplify the emerging market lender’s extensive network and reduce costs, people familiar with the plan said.

SINGAPORE (May 23): Barclays Plc has been exploring a potential merger with rival banks including Standard Chartered Plc, as part of wide-ranging contingency plans being weighed by senior board members following pressure from an activist investor, the Fin

JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia is investigating reports that US$1.4 billion ($1.9 billion) held by Standard Chartered Plc in Guernsey, mainly on behalf of Indonesian clients, was transferred to Singapore just before the island moved to new tax transparency

SINGAPORE (Dec 2): The kind that Standard Chartered Plc may have unwittingly facilitated is 86% more shameful than control lapses at DBS Group Holdings and UBS Group AG. Or so it seems from the simple arithmetic of financial penalties imposed by the Monet

(Oct 6): Standard Chartered Plc has stepped up its hiring from Barclays Plc’s private-banking team in Hong Kong ahead of the transfer of the business to Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp., in a move that underscores the stiff competition for wealth managers

SINGAPORE (Sept 2): Singapore’s population may be 0.4% the size of China’s but the tiny city-state may soon host a larger number of carriers than the world’s largest mobile-phone market.

July 25 (Bloomberg): Singapore’s regulatory chief vowed stronger action to address the reputational damage caused by anti-money laundering lapses at banks in the city linked to the troubled state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd.