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Financing and Securities Services
Promoting your future in global securities
We’re ready to help you flourish in emerging and frontier securities services markets
What we offer
In today’s fast-moving markets, especially across Asia, Africa and Middle East, success isn’t just about the solutions you choose – it’s about the partnerships you build.
Standard Chartered has been committed to these regions for decades. We understand both the promise and challenges. That’s why we go beyond delivering end-to-end custody, fund, and fiduciary solutions – we actively help shape the markets themselves.
By working with local governments and industry associations, we bring you early insights and access to new opportunities. Partnering with leading asset managers, fintechs, and infrastructure providers, we connect you to the best of the industry, via a single partner. Because in a world of complexity, collaboration is your greatest advantage.
Whether you need domestic, direct, or global custody, we’ve got you covered.

With a focus on emerging and frontier markets – and proprietary coverage that’s more than doubled in the past decade – we help you tap into the world’s fastest-growing securities markets.

Regardless of multiple custody-model and geographical demands, we simplify operations. Our single platform streamlines monitoring and execution, while standardised processes across markets make managing multi-jurisdictional relationships effortless.
Access fund administration across 22 markets – more than any other bank in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This unique reach is just the start.

Our local experts guide you through the unique complexities of each market, helping you navigate with confidence.

With our one-stop model, you can simplify provider interactions, reduce costs, and scale efficiently. We offer a full suite of services, including fund accounting, performance and compliance reporting, transfer agency, share class hedging, FATCA/CRS support, and trustee or supervisory services.

Everything is delivered through a single point of contact, backed by on-demand reporting for full visibility and control.
Tap into a growing suite of prime brokerage and clearing services across some of the securities markets with greatest potential – including OTC clearing, fixed income and prime custody, and cross-service margining.

In select markets, our role as local custodian gives you added flexibility, such as using nonstandard margin collateral where others can’t.

We’re also focused on helping you manage costs. For example, under uncleared margin rules, we use NDF clearing to reduce your collateral drag by clearing the dealer leg.
With a foundation of bank-grade security and regulatory compliance, we provide investors the confidence they need to securely store and manage digital assets.

Our pioneering custody services offer peace of mind, leveraging institutional-grade standards to protect your investments in an ever-evolving market.

As one of the first banks offering digital asset custody, we ensure seamless access to digital assets while adhering to the highest regulatory standards.

Partnering with us provides you a compliant, secure entry point into this new asset class, enabling product expansion and future growth.
Insight feature
The Custodian Edition
Breaking down emerging market barriers, byte by byte
Regulatory harmonisation and digital automation are streamlining processes, reducing bottlenecks, and aligning settlement cycles, breaking down market barriers along the way. This edition of The Custodian explores some of the new opportunities arising from these initiatives.
Why choose us?
Access restricted markets
Explore high-barrier, high-potential securities markets
Capture opportunities first
New investment ideas via market advocacy and regulatory relationships
Enhance with technology
Work with a single partner; we connect you with fintechs and more
Our latest insights
On the rise: unlocking India’s opportunities
Examining how investors are viewing opportunities on the subcontinent.
Uncovering a world of unchartered opportunities
Access and thrive in high-barrier markets with us. We provide on-the-ground research into Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and proprietary pricing and trade execution across multiple asset classes – including FX, rates, and commodities.