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Trade and Working Capital
Powering global trade
For businesses, corporates, and financial institutions to unlock growth in a changing world.
Making cross-border business easy for you
All the trade solutions you need
Whether you want to grow your business, expand to new markets, or develop your sustainability capabilities, we have the trade finance solutions to support your goals. And for your more complex needs, we also offer structured financing solutions, catering to your unique requirements and enabling you to thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of global trade.
Documentary trade
Letters of credit
As a leading bank for L/C advisory globally, we simplify cross-border trade for importers and exporters, helping you mitigate risk, secure payments and expand into new markets.
Guarantees
Protect cross-border cash flow and demonstrate financial strength to partners, through our comprehensive solutions across performance, customs, tax and large syndicated programmes.
Documentary collections
Streamline trade payments and receipts, reduce risk and ensure smoother settlements, through our secure framework for managing payments, collections and document exchange.
Supply chain finance
Distributor financing
Accelerate sales growth, mitigate risk, and strengthen your distributor networks across the most dynamic markets through our distributor financing solutions for MNCs.
Receivables purchase
Turn cash into capital, with our global solutions that combine our international network with bespoke structuring and comprehensive risk mitigation to boost liquidity.
Supplier financing
Empower your supply chains with accelerated supplier payments, strengthen your partnerships, and optimise your working capital with our flexible financing solutions.
Trade lending
Working capital lending
Our working capital loans give you flexibility to manage day to day expenses, seasonal demands or navigate unexpected cash flow gaps via our award-winning digital S2B platform.
Invoice financing
Get upfront funding to pay your suppliers, or unlock liquidity by converting receivables into cash. Optimise working capital digitally with faster funding and easier drawdown.
SC PrismFX
Manage FX exposures, optimise borrowing costs, get paid and settle in your preferred currency with cross-currency transactional FX solutions integrating in our trade solutions.
Sustainable trade finance
Taking sustainability beyond the physical supply chain to include financing is why we’ve developed our sustainability-linked financing solutions.
Our solutions aim to help clients transition to more sustainable business models with products embedding the principals of sustainable finance into our trade and working business.
Shaping the future of global trade
As global trade continues to evolve amid rapid technological change, we are actively helping shape what comes next— bringing together our deep trade expertise and strong commitment to innovation.
From strategic partnerships and exploring emerging technologies such as tokenisation, to our annual Future of Trade report, we are advancing new possibilities for the trade ecosystem. Above all, our focus remains on empowering clients to navigate uncertainty with confidence, unlock opportunities created by disruption, and build long‑term resilience.
Future of Trade
How are corporates leveraging digitalisation to power resilience?
Real-world asset tokenisation
Discover the power of trade finance tokenisation.
Hear from our clients
We’ve been keeping trade moving around the world for more than 170 years. Discover below how we have driven impact for our clients and enabled them to reach their goals.
Case study: JSW Steel
How we enabled JSW Steel to unlock working capital while strengthening p…
Case study: Bata
Find out how our supplier finance solution supported Bata in unlocking v…
Innovative trade finance solution powers Seatrium’s gr…
Standard Chartered pioneered a unique structured trade finance solution …
Flexible receivables purchasing to boost liquidity
With an increasingly global footprint, UAE-headquartered Ducab has impro…
Case study: POSCO
A tailored trade finance solution with SC PrismFX ,helping POSCO reduce …
Case study: Walton Hi-tech
Walton becomes the first exporter to settle trade in Indian rupee, reduc…
Proof of our commitment
Our awards are testament to our unwavering commitment to our client-centricity and pushing the frontiers of trade finance. Below are some of the recognitions we have received in 2025.
We were named Best Treasury And Cash Management Bank in The Asset Triple A Treasurise Awards 2026. Standard Chartered’s Transaction Banking leadership affirmed by this signature recognition and 95 other Triple A accolades.
Proud to be named “Global Bank of the Year for Sustainable Finance”, and winning a further two awards across trade finance and sustainable finance solutions in the 2026 awards for Innovation & Excellence.
We have been recognised with 9 wins at the Global Finance 2026 Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance Awards, including Best Bank for Trade Finance Management – Emerging Markets, Best Trade Document Management, Best Deep Tier Supply Chain Finance Solution-Global and Best Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Program.
Join us at trade events globally
We look forward to connecting with you and helping you with your business needs. Discover some of the key events we sponsor and lead below.
Other insights
Case study: JSW Steel
How we enabled JSW Steel to unlock working capital while strengthening payment discipline with our seamless and …
Why partner with us
Connect easily to dynamic markets
Our unique network and local expertise enable your smooth expansion to new trade corridors.
Award-winning solutions
Award-winning financing solutions to enable you on your sustainability journey.
Experience the difference
Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. Our trademark service is a testament to our focus.
Remain one step ahead
With an unwavering commitment to innovation, we’re preparing clients for the future of trade.