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Standard Chartered is a London-headquartered bank focused on corporate, commercial and institutional banking across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Borderless.xyz says a $200 stablecoin-funded remittance costs a median $2 against $12.72 on the World Bank's average, an 84% saving. Payout completion runs from 73% in Costa Rica to 98.6% in Mexico, so a sender comparing fees also has to compare whether the money arrives.
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Standard Chartered moved its $2 trillion stablecoin forecast from 2028 to 2030 as supply stalled near $309 billion. Geoffrey Kendrick, its head of digital assets research, ties the stall to weak crypto markets, and Allium data show trading still outweighs payments.
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Standard Chartered, with VARA approval, now lets Professional Investor clients in the UAE trade Bitcoin and Ether from existing bank accounts. The bank keeps custody and settlement itself, so exchanges are now its competitor for these clients, with price still untested.
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Standard Chartered opened institutional custody of Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger on Oct. 12, a token with about $2.4 billion in circulation. The plan to post it as LMAX collateral has no launch date and still needs testing, documentation and approvals.
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Princeton Digital Group is seeking up to $1.2 billion through five banks for a 198.8MW Johor campus and to refinance debt, Bloomberg reported. With Indonesia's $856 million, a full-size loan would bring it to about $2.06 billion of a $5 billion debt target.
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Seven banks have added RM15 billion (US$3.7 billion) to DayOne's Johor data centre financing, bringing the platform to RM30 billion. The lenders disclosed it on October 13, a week after DayOne filed for a Nasdaq IPO.
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Standard Chartered Singapore targets end-2026 for institutional crypto, stablecoin and tokenized-asset custody, pending regulatory approval. Until the bank lists supported assets, the claim that it will hold Ripple's RLUSD rests on an X post.
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HSBC is preparing to cut about half of the managers and specialists in its UK wealth unit and close to 70% of its advisers, the FT reported. The bank has not confirmed the figures, and the cuts would partly reverse an earlier plan to hire more UK advisers and grow assets under management.
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Standard Chartered plans a custody service for selected cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and tokenized assets for Singapore institutions. Clients of its securities-services arm could then keep tokens at a bank they already use, on a timetable the bank has not yet set.
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Kpler says about 40% of Gulf crude now leaves without crossing Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, as exports regain prewar levels. Iran's own exports are blockaded to almost nothing, and it can still strike the onshore oil assets that now carry more of the flow.
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Anchorage Digital now gives non-US institutions USD accounts, SWIFT wires and 24/7 dollar transfers through a Standard Chartered partnership. A client that drops its separate bank keeps weekend dollar access only to firms that also bank at Standard Chartered Singapore.
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Moody's rated Sky Protocol B3, its first stablecoin-protocol rating, citing about $90 million of equity behind roughly $10 billion of assets. That cushion is under 1%, well short of the 2.5% capital ratio Moody's set as its bar for an upgrade.
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Arbitrum joined Paxos's Global Dollar Network to share USDG reserve income, with a DAO proposal to add 100 million ARB in incentives. It takes no direct cut of the USDC that is about 60% of its $3.8 billion in stablecoins, so the payoff depends on USDG winning that float.
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Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi says banks must build three systems of their own to join Swift's tokenized-deposit ledger, live so far with four banks. Swift coordinates the transfers while each bank pays for its own stack, and Taurus sells all three layers on one platform.
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Standard Chartered set ENA targets of $0.42, $1.10 and $2.00 for end-2026 through end-2028, the first formal targets a major bank has put on Ethena's token. Nearly all of the upside depends on the USDe synthetic dollar growing back past a buyback trigger that it currently sits well below.
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Christopher Hui gave Hong Kong lawmakers an offshore-yuan agenda led by PBoC swap talks while the city's two licensed stablecoin issuers lack a trading venue. Both issue Hong Kong-dollar coins, and the licensing bill for virtual-asset trading is promised only for later this year.
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Standard Chartered has placed a dedicated DeFi research desk beside its ETF and stablecoin access, citing DeFi value locked that reached $114bn in 2025. The move makes on-chain research part of the access layer the bank sells, grouped with the custody and trading it already offers.
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Standard Chartered has initiated coverage on seven DeFi and onchain infrastructure projects since mid-June, with Ethena the latest. Each has its own revenue and token model, so clients still need a single yardstick to weigh the seven against each other.
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Tokenized equities now count 1.4 million holders, up 447.5% in six months. The growth is a distribution story, and the average position is still very small.
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Ant International says its upgraded forecasting model is in production at Citi, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Barclays, with a claim of 60% lower hedging costs attached.
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