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Standard Chartered Posts Profit Growth, Maintains Guidance

The bank’s underlying profit before tax climbed 7% to $2.28 billion.

Standard Chartered reiterated its plan to return at least $8 billion to shareholders over the three years ending in 2026.
Standard Chartered reiterated its plan to return at least $8 billion to shareholders over the three years ending in 2026. Photo: peter nicholls/Reuters

Standard Chartered increased its first-quarter net profit, topping market expectations, and maintained its guidance despite cautioning of heightened economic uncertainty fueled by tariffs.

The London-based bank said Friday that net profit rose from a year earlier, driven in part by higher income from macro and credit trading as well as from investment and insurance products at its wealth business.

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