Standard Chartered

Southeast Asia’s digital economy is entering a more electricity-intensive phase. Grid readiness is now shaping how quickly AI infrastructure, data centers, EV supply chains, and green industrial parks can move from announcement to deployment.

Southeast Asia’s (SEA) green economy which is valued at approximately $290 billion today, is projected to reach $430 billion by 2030, a report said Monday.

Global bank Standard Chartered has on Monday launched its first Global Fusion Center in Malaysia, reinforcing the country’s status as a strong talent ecosystem and a key strategic technology hub for the group.

Global bank Standard Chartered has appointed Karby Leggett as Head of Digital Assets for Greater China North Asia, South Asia and ASEAN within the Digital Assets Centre of Excellence.

Following the successful completion of its pilot SGD denominated liquidity transfers for Ant International, Standard Chartered announced that it has introduced a tokenized SGD and USD account balances solution for Ant International on the latter’s blockchain-based real-time global treasury management platform, the Whale platform.

Capital A Berhad and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad announced Friday the signing of a letter of intent (LOI) to jointly explore the development and testing of a Ringgit (MYR)-denominated stable coin through the Digital Asset Innovation Hub (DAIH) under Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).

Finmo, the Singapore-based treasury operating system firm, has partnered with Standard Chartered, an international banking group, to launch global currency account (GCA) capabilities that enable businesses to manage pay-ins, pay-outs, and foreign exchange with greater control and visibility across markets.

Supported by Swift’s trusted infrastructure, Ant International, a Singapore-based global digital payment firm, and Standard Chartered Bank have launched live production trials for a bank-to-wallet payment solution using the ISO 20022 financial messaging standards.

Ant International and Standard Chartered announced Monday a new collaboration to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered treasury and foreign exchange (FX) management solution that integrates Ant International’s Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) Model with Standard Chartered’s Aggregated Liquidity Engine (SCALE).