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    Global Markets

    Uncovering a world of potential

    Your local advocate in high-barrier markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

What we offer

Combined with our incisive Global Research analysis, we provide you with access to foreign exchange, rates products, commodities, financing and securities services to help you achieve your goals around the world.

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Foreign exchange

Lean on a primary provider for your FX needs across the world. With us, you can access a unique mix of G10, emerging, and frontier market currencies. Discover more than 130 currencies – including restricted emerging ones – and a wide range of products.

With our proprietary Standard Chartered Markets platform, you can trade everything in one place. Plus, with our Standard Chartered Markets Post Trade platform, you can view, manage and process your global trades anywhere, anytime.

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Rates

Access to the world’s highest-potential rates markets remains limited. Yet early moves in China and other future leading markets will reap great rewards.

With broad product capabilities and understanding of nuances across such markets, we can be your local guide. Trade in everything from derivates and securities to cross-currency products, structured rate products and financing products with us.

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Commodities

Commodities are vital to the markets across our footprint – so we’re committed to this business for the long term. No other bank offers as broad a range of commodities trading products across as many jurisdictions globally. And with sustainability-targeting solutions and carbon and emissions trading also available, you can rely on us for all your global trading needs.

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Financing and securities services

Managing multiple providers across securities services is time and resource draining. We can service all your needs across the investment lifecycle – from prime services to custody, clearing and fund services. And with all this available across a global footprint and via a single platform, you can rely on just one partner globally.

Beyond the access barriers, successful ventures into emerging and frontier markets will often require innovative approaches to product structures.

For situations where vanilla or conventional products and solutions don’t apply, our structured solutions experts are on hand to create new, bespoke offerings.

Across FX, rates, commodities, and global credit markets, we’re not afraid to explore new opportunities that help you align with local nuances in the world’s highest-potential financial markets.

And with expertise across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, we can also develop structures with intra-connectivity to other emerging and frontier markets.

Digital products and solutions

Explore our full range of digital solutions platforms, bringing banking to your fingertips.

  • SC Markets

    Standard Chartered Markets is a fast and flexible digital solution, providing unrivalled access to liquidity.

  • SC Markets Post Trade

    Revolutionise your post-trade experience – view, manage, and process your global trades anywhere, anytime.

  • Digital Assets

    Unlock secure, scalable solutions to safekeep, trade and tokenise digital assets.

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    Global Research

    Access the analysis you need to thrive in high-barrier markets, with research produced on the ground by experts across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.  

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    Digital Assets

    Specialised solutions to support your digital asset objectives through a trusted platform.

Latest insights

Explore a selection of our latest articles, insights and podcasts.

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  • The Custodian Edition: Beyond borders, beyond tomorrow

    Financial markets have entered a new era, driven by the rise of digital assets and the need to leverage artificial intelligence (AI). Meanwhile, the industry is seeing increased regulation around digital assets and in turn an acceleration in institutional interest in these instruments.

    In this edition of Bankable Insights: The Custodian – Beyond borders, beyond tomorrow, we explain why these developments matter.

    Awards

    Euromoney 2025– World’s best bank for Securities Services
    Global Custodian 2025– Industry Person of the Year (Margaret Harwood-Jones)
    – Agent Bank of the Year for Frontier Markets
    Global Finance 2025– World’s best Sub-Custodian Bank (13 markets)
    Risk Asia Awards– Interest rate derivatives house of the year