Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered raids Julius Baer for UAE private banking team

UK bank hires Yahya Ismail as its new Dubai-based Emea market head

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Standard Chartered eyes private markets tie-ups in ultra high net worth push

Lender wants to ink deals with other ‘tier one managers’ to boost its investment club for the ultra wealthy

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Standard Chartered to overhaul executive pay as bonuses jump 7%

The UK lender is proposing skewing payments towards bigger bonuses after the scrapping of a long-standing cap by UK regulators

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Zodia Markets CEO Usman Ahmad: Crypto sector must challenge poor behaviour

The trading platform boss on why the industry has to grow up, expansion in the Middle East, and taking time out to coach cricket

Standard Chartered posts higher profit on trading gains

The bank’s net profit rose 5.2% to $1.22bn for the three months ended March

The Standard Chartered-backed digital assets firm sees the Middle East as a key source of growth

Zodia Markets co-founder Nick Philpott relocates to Abu Dhabi

Philpott joins CTO Giovanni Miano and chief risk officer Mark Matthews in the UAE

'All the new flow and inflow have, rightly, been around Blackrock, Fidelity, Invesco and eight other tradfi firms'

Tradfi eyes crypto land grab after years of shunning sector

The SEC’s approval of spot bitcoin ETFs in January has started a new cryptocurrency gold rush, with the biggest players in finance now joining the wagon train into the former Wild West of finance

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Simon Cooper said it was the right time to seek a new challenge

Standard Chartered’s Simon Cooper to leave in investment bank overhaul

The bank is looking to bolster its share price after unveiling $1.5bn cost-cutting plan

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Bill Winters, chief executive of Standard Chartered, was paid £7.8m

Standard Chartered keeps bonus pool for staff at $1.6bn

Standard Chartered kept its bonus pool in line with 2022, its biggest payments since the 2008 financial crisis

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