E-Channels 

Standard Chartered’s e-Channel solutions are underpinned by our market-leading position, deep liquidity and an unrivalled ability to price illiquid and restricted currencies. Multiple instruments including FX (spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs), government bonds, and rate interest swaps are supported, with instant execution on real-time streaming prices and flexible delivery options.

Our award-winning e-channel solutions include:

  • Online Treasury (OLT) on Straight2bank


  • Our proprietary request-for-quote foreign exchange service resides on the award winning Straight2Bank platform. OLT provides clients with a direct link to our trading floors, enabling:
  • Fast, automated, competitive prices
  • Comprehensive coverage of G10 and emerging market currencies
  • Spot, forward and swap pricing in over 100 currency pairs, 24 hours a day
  • Instant access to trading Asian and Latin American non-deliverable forwards
  • Straight2bank Stream


  • Straight2Bank Stream is our proprietary streaming electronic platform for foreign exchange. This service offers:
  • Executable streaming real-time prices
  • Highly competitive rates
  • Comprehensive coverage of emerging market and G10 currencies
  • Instant execution
  • Accessibility 24 hours a day
  • FIX API

  • FIX is the most widely used API (application programming interface) in global financial markets, supporting multiple instruments including FX Spot, Forward and Swap transactions. By connecting directly to Straight2Bank Stream through a FIX API, corporate and institutional clients can enhance their e-trading capabilities, without using a web interface.


To complement these proprietary services, we also provide liquidity to clients using industry-leading multi-bank portals such as FXall, FX Connect, Currenex, 360T and Bloomberg FX, as well as acting as an EBS®™ Prime bank. We are a market-leading provider of eIRS via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service where we support online pricing in the most comprehensive range of Asian deliverable and non-deliverable IRS products in the industry.

Our ongoing, significant investment in state-of-the-art technologies ensure that the solution you choose today will support your future requirements in terms of new instruments, global reach, functionality
and flexible delivery.