2026 · Evidence audit

Standard Chartered FX — institutional liquidity provider

Standard Chartered FX operates as a Tier-1 bank FX liquidity provider. It serves financial institutions, NBFIs, PayTech firms, and corporates. Self-measured claims regarding FX volume and market position may require verification.

Standard Chartered PLC (banking via Standard Chartered Bank) · London, UK · last re-checked 2026-09 · evidence score 87/100

Licence, read on the register

Regulator	Licence number	Jurisdiction	Tier	Source
FCA (Standard Chartered Bank)	114276	UK	tier-1	open source ↗
SEC/FINRA (BrokerCheck, Standard Chartered Securities North America LLC)	8-66397	US	tier-1	open source ↗

Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-1 = FCA/ASIC/CFTC-class supervision, tier-2 = CySEC/FSC-Mauritius/MFSA-class, tier-3 = offshore registration. A tier-2 licence is genuine supervision without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.

What the firm commits to

Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.

Testable claims

Standard Chartered's FX trading network stretches across emerging markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, transacting since doors opened in Mumbai, Kolkata and Shanghai in 1853 (sc.com fx-capabilities page)
SC PrismFX is the bank's cross-currency transactional FX solutions suite for Financial Institution, NBFI, PayTech and Corporate clients globally (sc.com press release)
Institutional digital-asset trading launched through its UK entity as an FCA-registered cryptoasset firm, with clients accessing cryptoassets through familiar FX interfaces (sc.com press release)

Claims we cannot verify from outside

FX volume / market-position claims (self-measured)

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes	Venues	Connectivity	Clients accepted	Explicitly refused
FX spot, FX forwards, FX swaps, NDFs, FX options		SC PrismFX transactional FX suite, multi-dealer e-FX platforms	Financial institutions, Non-banking financial institutions, PayTech firms, Corporates	Retail clients (institutional FX lines)

A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to diligence than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as a disclosure, not a defect.