Standard Chartered plc is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around 90% of its profits come from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Standard Chartered has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has secondary listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange of India, and OTC Markets Group Pink. Its largest shareholder is the Government of Singapore-owned Temasek Holdings.The Financial Stability Board considers it a systemically important bank.
Standard Chartered Bank Building, Bombay (Mumbai). Designed by Frederick William Stevens (1847-1900), with architectural sculpture by Roscoe Mullins (1848-1907). Built 1898-1902, in various types of stone (see below), it stands in a prominent position in the old Fort area at the end of M.G. (Mahatma Gandhi) Road.
This site was taken on a 99-year lease by the Bank and the building completed in 1902. It is in a neo-Classical style and designed by the illustrious F. W. Stevens, though he died before it could be built. Charles Stevens, his equally famous son, completed it through his partnership with David Ebenezer Gostling, another thriving Bombay architect who had joined the older Stevens in 1897
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