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Global Clearing
Navigate cross-border payments with clarity
Harness local clearing expertise to navigate complex markets with speed, certainty and control
Turn global clearing into your competitive advantage
Expectations on financial institutions (FIs) are shifting rapidly. Your customers demand payment transparency, faster execution, and broader currency coverage. Concurrently, many are reassessing correspondent banking relationships to enable growth into new corridors – while maintaining control, compliance, and efficiency.
Empowering financial institutions to scale into new corridors
Standard Chartered’s Global Clearing solution is your competitive advantage for regulatory confidence, balance‑sheet efficiency, customer experience, and scalability. Our approach is built around being local where it matters, global where it counts, and future‑ready by design.
Local-first clearing
Reduce reliance on intermediaries and improve last-mile control. Clearing your payments closer to the destination market can increase transparency, helping you scale with confidence.
Globally consistent standards
Organisations are increasingly diversifying beyond a single currency for treasury settlement. Consistency in payment clearing performance – especially across the major currencies of U.S. dollar (USD), euro (EUR), and pound sterling (GBP) – supports your customers’ growth while keeping your operating models simple and scalable.
Emerging market capabilities
Embedding emerging market currencies is increasingly strategic; it enables expansion into new corridors and improves last‑mile outcomes. We support expansion beyond the major currencies and into complex corridors, with proven local execution in renminbi (RMB), Indian rupee (INR), Thai baht (THB) and other emerging market currencies.
Islamic banking and Shariah compliance
For FIs balancing Shariah requirements with supporting customers’ global growth, we offer Shariah-compliant clearing in U.S. dollar (USD) and pound sterling (GBP) through our Saadiq nostro accounts.
Future-ready roadmap
Gain insights from our expertise with ISO 20022 and emerging payment rails – and our participation in various regulator-led projects – to help formulate your future clearing and correspondent banking strategies.
Hear from our clients
Learn how our FI clients are increasing volumes and ensuring peace of mind for themselves and their customers.
Payments clarity and peace of mind.
The rise in e-commerce, digital payment methods, and instant rails has increased business demands for cross-border clearing. More than ever, a reliable, trustworthy, and super-connected international banking partner is essential to meet evolving customer needs.
Here is what our clients have to say on Global Clearing with Standard Chartered.
Nonghyup Bank
Discover how Nonghyup Bank increased transaction volumes after launching an enhanced global remittance service.
Wio Bank PJSC
Uncover how Wio Bank PJSC expanded currency coverage and boosted payment visibility across key trade routes.
Proof of our commitment
Rely on an experienced partner with proven onshore and offshore capabilities, deep local expertise, and a consistent record of high client satisfaction.
FI Metrix Survey 2025 named Standard Chartered as number one-rated globally for overall service satisfaction across USD, EUR, and GBP.
We are ranked among the top five for Swift market share in INR, THB, and HKD for commercial cross border payments.*
Whether expanding into new corridors, improving payment certainty, or reassessing your correspondent banking model, our Global Clearing specialists can help identify and implement the right structure for your priorities.
Speak to your relationship manager on your next clearing opportunity.
*Rankings are based on data from Swift Watch Analytics and reflect live and delivered FIN/ISO send and received messages over the past 12 months in INR, THB, and HKD, accurate as of August 2026. Payment volume includes MT 103s/ pacs.008 messages and excludes FileAct/instant payment traffic.