Standard Chartered CEO: Global Banking, Geopolitical Shifts and the Future of Blockchain
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Hi everyone, I'm Nikolai Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and today I'm joined by Bill Winters, the group CEO of Standard Charter Bank, one of the world's most distinctive banks. Headquartered in London, you have most of your activities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and we own more than 2% of the company worth a billion dollars. We are really proud shareholders. So Bill, um the bank opened its first offices far away in Mumbai, Kolkata and Shanghai in 1853, a long time ago. And you've been CEO in uh for 10 years, which is only 5% of the of the duration of the bank.
So tell us, what is it that makes Standard Charter so special. Yeah, first it's great to be here. Thanks for having me. Uh so you're right.
Standard Charter actually started as the Standard Bank of Africa, which started in in Port Elizabeth in South Africa, to today South Africa, and uh and the Charter Bank of India, China, and Australia, which first branched in Calcutta. And obviously at the outset, it was uh uh it were two banks. It only came together in 1969, still a long time ago, uh, but to finance the empire. It was to finance trade within the empire. And
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