• Standard Chartered is one of the oldest foreign banks in China. Since the set up of the first branch in 1858, the Bank has been offering uninterrupted services with its global banking expertise to China, starting from Shanghai and Hong Kong, and extending to cover the whole China including GBA.
• Standard Chartered PLC is listed in London and Hong Kong. With over 160 years of international insights, we are the oldest note-issuing bank in Hong Kong, as well as one of the three Chairman banks of the Hong Kong Association of Banks.
• We are a leading international banking group, with a presence in 52 of the world’s most dynamic markets. More than 75% of our global footprint overlaps with the Belt & Road markets. Companies in GBA can take advantage of our unique networks across ASEAN, the Middle East and Africa to develop new markets and diversify risks.
• With experience in China’s economic evolvement, we have made the GBA our strategic focus. As such, we are committed to supporting the vital development of new economy and fintech industries in this region. Backed by our market knowhow and service network, we offer one-stop and diversified wealth management, financing, investment and cross-border services.
• In 2019, Standard Chartered set up GBA management, strategic planning and business development teams to offer continued support and excellent services to GBA clients.
• In 2020, Standard Chartered set up a Standard Chartered Greater Bay Area Centre in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, and launched the “Standard Chartered GBA Business Confidence Index” with Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
• We are committed to serving the needs of each corporate or personal client in GBA, helping them to grasp new opportunities and turn their goals into reality.

Standard Chartered GBA Centre, as one of key actions of Standard Chartered group’s strategy of investing and developing GBA, was a project invested by Standard Chartered Bank and Standard Chartered Bank (Hongkong) Limited in August 2020. The project is to rent and build up multiple floors offices at Guangzhou International Commercial Centre (ICC), which will be an office location to hosting multiple legal entities, branches of Standard Chartered group. At present, Standard Chartered Global Business Services (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd and Standard Chartered (Guangzhou) Business Management Co., Ltd have operated at ICC. These two legal entities will provide global back office operation services, technology solutions and innovation services to Standard Chartered group and hold ICC property usage and provide property services respectively. On December 26^th, 2021, Standard Chartered Bank Guangzhou Branch was relocated to ICC. On May 10^th, 2022, Standard Chartered announced the phase III office at ICC was ready to use marking the completion of facility building up of GBA centre.