Standard Chartered Bank has been operating in India for over 160 years making it one of the oldest foreign Bank. The Bank has a network of 100 branches across 42 cities. Key business segments include Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking as well as Consumer, Private and Business Banking. For more information, visit https://www.sc.com/in/

In addition to a full-service universal bank, the group has a Non-Banking Finance lending entity to complement the Bank’s presence in specific geographies and segments, a Retail securities broking business and is the first foreign Bank to have commenced banking activities in India’s International Financial Services Centre (in GIFT City, Gujarat).

Globally, we are a leading international banking group, with a presence in 59 of the world’s most dynamic markets and serving clients in a further 85. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, and our heritage and values are expressed in our brand promise, here for good.

Standard Chartered PLC is listed on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.

We use our global capabilities and deep local knowledge in India to provide a wide range of products and services to meet the needs of our individual and business clients. We build our products and services around our clients and have a commitment to help ensure that our clients have the best possible experience with us.

• CNBC – India Business Leader Awards

Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB)

• Asset AAA awards

• • Asset AAA Best Trade Finance Bank – India (received for the fourth consecutive year)
  • Regional award for Best Trade & Working Capital Finance Bank in South Asia (received for the fourth consecutive year) 

Consumer, Private & Business Banking and Wealth Management

• Contact Centre of the Year Award: Winner in the categories ‘Best Contact Centre’ and ‘Best Use of Training in a Contact Centre’ at the 15th edition of the Customer Fest Awards 2022
• Best International Private Bank in India 2022 at the Asia Money Private Banking Awards (received for the third consecutive year)

Technology & Innovation

• Special Mention Award – Best Cloud Adoption (amongst foreign banks): Awarded by the Indian Banks’ Association

Consumer, Private & Business Banking and Wealth Management

• International Retail Bank of the Year: The Bank has been recognised as ‘International Retail Bank of the Year’ at the Asian Banking & Finance Awards 2021
• ‘Contact Centre of the Year’ Award: Bank is the ‘Winner’ in the category ‘Contact Centre of the Year in BFSI Sector’ at the 2nd Edition Future of Contact Centre Summit & Awards
• Best International Private Bank in India 2021 at the Asia Money Private Banking Awards (received for the second consecutive year)
• IFR Asia Awards 2020: IFR Overall Loan House as well as the India Loan House award (this is the third time in the last four years that we are winning the India Loan House award)

Technology & Innovation

• IBA Award for ‘Best Technology Bank’: Awarded by the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) under the Foreign Banks category

Corporate Affairs and Brand & Marketing

• India Public Relations and Corporate Communications Conference and Awards 2020 (IPRCCA): Our campaign #BankingTogether was recognised at the India Public Relations and Corporate Communications Conference and Awards 2020 (IPRCCA), winning a ‘Gold’ for the ‘Best Internal Communications Campaign’.
• 2nd ASSOCHAM Diversity & Inclusion Excellence Awards & Conclave 2020: Bank won the second runner-up award for ‘Best Employer for Women’ (in large category).

HR

• Great Place to Work certification: Awarded by the Great Place to Work® Institute

Diversity & Inclusion

• Great Place to Work certification: Awarded by the Great Place to Work® Institute
• ‘Gold employer’ on LGBT+ inclusion: At the India Workplace Equality Index 2021

Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB) 

• Asset AAA awards

• • Asset AAA Best Trade Finance Bank – India (received for second consecutive year)
  • Best Digital Solution for Castrol India
  • Best Trade Finance Solution India for our solution to ReNew Power

• 2020 Greenwich Excellence Awards: Standard Chartered Bank, India has been rated as the best bank in two categories – ‘Knowledge of Transaction Banking Needs’ and ‘Coordination of Product Specialists’ in the 2020 edition of the Greenwich Excellence Awards, wherein among more than 60 banks were evaluated. 

Consumer, Private & Business Banking and Wealth Management

• Gold Award for A3 project on Cross Border ACCOUNT Opening Simplification: The Cross Border Account Opening A3 team (Bankers Without Borders) won the “Gold Award”and was recognised as one the Top 2 A3s out of ~ 2500 A3s for 2020; ~ 250 Nominations and 10 Finalists. This A3 was unique in the sense that it delivered a great client experience, simplified process for bank colleagues and had a direct business outcome.
• Standard Chartered wins award from Kotak Mutual Fund: Standard Chartered Bank, India won an award for the highest overall AUM in the banking channel at the Kotak You&I Awards 2020, presented by Kotak Mutual Fund in Mumbai. This is the fifth year in a row that we have won this award.
• Asia Money Private Banking Awards: Best International Private Bank 

Operations

• Economic Times BFSI Innovation Award for India Data Lake
• Securities Services India receives letter of appreciation: The Securities Services India Team received a letter of appreciation from NSDL for being the first Custodian in India to deploy the Local DPM (Depository Participant) System on NSDL Cloud (private network). Given the COVID-19 situation, this migration has been really helpful since we are the only custodian and DP in the country who can operate NSDL local system from home unlike the rest of the DPs/ custodians who require mandatory presence in office to operate. 

Corporate Affairs and Brand & Marketing

• #BankingTogether campaign wins Gold Award at India Content Leadership Awards and Conference – ICL 2020
• Standard Chartered Bank, India featured in Exchange4media’s list of top 25 brands with Best In-house Communications Professionals 2020. We are the only Financial Services company to be featured in this list
• Campaign India awards (for initiatives taken during launch of Digismart Credit card)
  • Gold for best use of Search and Display marketing
  • Gold for multi-channel marketing
  • Gold – Best use of media – mobile platform 

Diversity & Inclusion

• Silver Employer for IWEI 2020: The Bank has been named as a ‘SILVER’ Employer in the India Workplace Equality Index 2020, which is India’s first comprehensive benchmarking tool to assess and empower a company’s efforts for LGBT+ inclusion.