Standard Chartered offers award-winning origination, structuring and distribution expertise in landmark capital markets transactions including multi-jurisdictional cross-border solutions and sophisticated structured finance products. With a physical presence going back more than 150 years in Asia, 140 years in Africa and 60 years in the Middle East, Standard Chartered has an entrenched local footprint and expertise in these increasingly important markets.
- Globally integrated, our Capital Markets business now spans 37 countries from 20 locations.
- Financing solutions in the form of convertibles, hybrid securities, assetbased securitisation, or syndicated loans and bonds, we provide optimal financing solutions by leveraging intricate knowledge of domestic markets and local regulations.
- Staffed entirely by former analysts from ratings agencies, Standard Chartered’s Rating Advisory team can help your company obtain appropriate credit ratings from international agencies.
- Benefit from our experience in delivering award-winning landmark deals, multi-jurisdiction cross border solutions and sophisticated structured products. Leverage our strengths as a leading debt house in Asia, with consistently high league table rankings in loan syndications and local currency fixed income.
- We can arrange syndicated loan facilities for project finance, aircraft finance, structured trade and acquisition financing and have been successful across a broad spectrum of industries including real estate development, hotels, telecommunications, public utilities, oil and petroleum and manufacturing sectors.
Award-winning, league table-topping
We have consistently maintained a leadership position in loans and bonds, dominating the league tables in most Asian, African and the Middle Eastern countries. We have been recognised with various awards from prestigious industry publications including IFR, Euromoney, FinanceAsia, The Asset and The Banker.
Benefit from our experience:
Asia
As well as being leaders in the Asian debt and loan markets of Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, we have also expanded our fixed income coverage to China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
We have set benchmarks in the Asian capital markets by bringing new / rare international issuers from a wide range of industry sectors to participate in large local landmark transactions.
Consistently secured repeat mandates from our clients are proof of their confidence in our abilities.
Middle East and Pakistan
Standard Chartered is a key player in the debt markets of Pakistan and the Gulf. In Pakistan, we are also one of the approved dealers in government securities and have established a strong position as a leading distributor to institutional and corporate investors.
In the Gulf, we are one of the main banks leading the development of the conventional and Islamic debt market in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), having co-managed the first conventional bond in the market for Emirates Airlines and joint lead-managed the first Islamic bond (Sukuk) to be issued by the Government of Dubai.
We also actively participate in the wholesale of Eurobonds throughout the Gulf region.
Africa
We combine our local market experience and global product expertise to customise a wide range of financial solutions to meet the needs of issuers and investors in Africa for longer term funding and investment.
Our capital markets operations span the key markets of East Africa - Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Central and West Africa – Ghana and Nigeria.