Choose Standard Chartered and you gain access to full loan origination, distribution and trading capabilities, together with an unrivalled ability to match lenders and borrowers. Our leadership position and world class distribution capability result from the team’s ability to read the market, and to provide superb sell down coverage.
Global reach
We have an extensive global network, with syndications teams based in New York specialising in Latin America; in London, covering Europe; and in Africa and South Asia. We have supporting offices in Pakistan and Bangladesh; in Dubai for the Middle East; and in Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpa, Seoul and Shanghai covering Asia Pacific.
With over 150 years’ experience in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, we have been instrumental in developing the syndicated loan markets in many of the world's emerging markets.
Local know-how
Our intimate knowledge of the diverse industries in these countries, as well as understanding and working with local governments, means we can provide you with a solution designed solely to meet your needs.
We also partner our clients to arrange syndicated loan facilities for project finance, aircraft finance, structured trade and acquisition financing including leveraged buy-outs.
We have been successful in loan capital raisings for financial institutions, major blue-chip, ‘red chip’, and mid-cap corporates across a broad spectrum of industries - including real estate development, hotels, telecoms, institutional banking and finance, public utility, oil and petroleum, light manufacturing and food sectors.
Your partner for success
Globally, we have a proven track record in devising innovative capital-raising structures that exceed our clients' expectations. Our tailored solution for your business could include:
- Working capital and corporate funding
- Commodity and trade finance
- ECA-backed deals
- Loan-style FRNs
- Acquisition finance
- Leveraged buy-outs
- Islamic structures
- Project finance
- Structured, complex and tax-efficient capital raisings
Our dedicated teams can help you with:
Origination and structuring – fund-raising for corporates. This normally involves getting a group of banks together (forming a syndicate) to provide the loan amount required by the customer under a set of common terms and conditions laid down in a loan agreement.
Loan distribution - global distribution and secondary activity including loan trading.