Standard Chartered

British financial company
Organization bank Q548278
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Standard Chartered is a bank.[1] It was founded on January 1, 1853. Its legal form is a public limited company.

Key Facts

  • Member of: Federal Association of German Banks[3], Net-Zero Banking Alliance[4], Deutsches Aktieninstitut[5], Association of Foreign Banks in Germany[6], British Chamber of Commerce in Germany[7]
  • Country: United Kingdom[8], GB[9]
  • Instance of: financial institution[10], business[11], public company[12]
  • Founder: James Wilson[13]
  • Follows: Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China[14], Eastern Bank Ltd[15], National Bank of India[16], Standard Bank[17]
  • Headquarters location: London[18]
  • Chief executive officer: Bill Winters[19]
  • Child organization or unit: Standard Chartered Hong Kong[20], Standard Chartered Zambia[21], Standard Chartered Taiwan[22], Standard Chartered Singapore[23], Standard Chartered Zimbabwe[24]
  • Part of: FTSE 100 Index[25]
  • Commons category: Standard Chartered Bank[26]
  • Stock exchange: London Stock Exchange[27], Hong Kong Stock Exchange[28], National Stock Exchange of India[29], OTC Markets Group[30]
  • Industry: financial services[31], economics of banking[32], financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding[33], financial sector[34]
  • Chairperson: José Viñals Íñiguez[35]
  • Inception: January 1, 1853[36], 1969-11-18[37]
  • Location of formation: London[38]
  • Official website: https://www.sc.com[39]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Standard Chartered[40]
  • Product or material produced: financial services[41]
  • Employees: 86,000[42], 85,000[43]
  • Replaces: Standard Bank[44], Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China[45]
  • Topic has template: Template:Standard Chartered[46]
  • Official name: Standard Chartered PLC[47]
  • Legal form: public limited company[48], B6ES[49]
  • Street address: 1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD, United Kingdom[50]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): U4LOSYZ7YG4W3S5F2G91[51]

  • Registered legal name: Standard Chartered PLC[52]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[53]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[54]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): B6ES[55]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[56]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[57]

  • Entity created: 1969-11-18[58]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-06-06[59]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-09-07[60]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-10-27[61]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[62]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[63]

  • Authority entity ID: 00966425[64]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[65]

Why It Matters

Standard Chartered has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[66] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[67]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . unepfi.org. Retrieved . unepfi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [16] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [17] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [19] ↑ . sc.com. sc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [27] ↑ . londonstockexchange.com. londonstockexchange.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [28] ↑ . hkex.com.hk. hkex.com.hk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [30] ↑ . otcmarkets.com. otcmarkets.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [33] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [34] ↑ . unepfi.org. Retrieved . unepfi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [3] ↑ . bankenverband.de. Retrieved . bankenverband.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [4] ↑ . unepfi.org. Retrieved . unepfi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [5] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [6] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [7] ↑ . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . sc.com. sc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . sc.com. sc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . londonstockexchange.com. londonstockexchange.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [51] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [54] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [55] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [56] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [58] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [59] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [60] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [61] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [62] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [63] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [64] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [65] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [66] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [67] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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