Standard Chartered named Best Regional Retail Business
in Asia
Wins total of 5 awards at Asian Banker’s Excellencein Retail Financial Services 2008 Awards
21 May 2008
Standard Chartered Bank has been named Best Regional Retail Business in Asia at The Asian Banker’s Excellence in Retail Financial Services 2008 Awards ceremony, held in Bangkok on 16 May 2008. At the same time, Standard Chartered won another four country awards -- The Best Retail Bank in Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan and Best Foreign Retail Bank in China.
The Asian Banker, a leading industry publication and provider of strategic business and financial information, said in its citation, “Standard Chartered’s long-stated policy to focus on emerging markets paid off spectacularly in 2007 as it reported a profits bonanza… Now the fifth largest UK-based bank by market capitalisation, Standard Chartered has grown rapidly in the past few years.”
The Asian Banker also noted, “Standard Chartered is now concentrating on deepening customer relationships and leveraging their in-depth local knowledge and extensive cross-border network.”
Photo shows Mr. Wilson Chia, centre, Head of Consumer Banking in South East Asia receives the Best Regional Retail Business in Asia Award, together with other bank executives including, from left, Syed Kazim Raza, GM C.E. Pakistan, Christine Ip, CB Head China, Vikram Issar, CB Head, Bangladesh and Tiew, Siew Chuen, CB Head and CEO, Brune