LSEG and Standard Chartered Announce Multi-Year Collaboration

WHY THIS MATTERS: This high-profile collaboration signals a critical inflection point for Enterprise Data Management within global financial services. For a major, geographically complex institution like Standard Chartered, the true value of this agreement is not simply access to market data, but the strategic consolidation of that data under a single framework with unified rights management. The industry significance lies in the explicit focus on simplifying the data landscape to reduce operational friction and risk. By standardizing delivery via APIs and cloud channels, the bank can achieve crucial data lineage—the ability to trace all data from source to final workflow. This capability is paramount in the current environment, allowing the bank to strengthen control and auditability while meeting rapidly evolving global regulatory demands and enabling faster, more consistent client-facing services across all business lines.

LSEG announced a multi-year collaboration with Standard Chartered that will enable the Bank to adopt LSEG’s multi-asset class data, news and analytics at enterprise scale, with consistent rights management and delivery.

The multi-year agreement supports Standard Chartered’s operating model by consolidating market-data access, improving catalogue and lineage, and streamlining governance and entitlements.

Gianluca Biagini, Group Co-Head, Data & Analytics, LSEG, said: “We’re pleased to deepen our relationship with Standard Chartered. With broad coverage, transparent usage rights and flexible delivery via feeds, APIs and cloud channels, we’ll support the Bank’s efficiency today – and its future innovation.”

Mark Price, Chief Operating Officer, Corporate & Investment Banking at Standard Chartered, commented: “This agreement gives our teams a single, governed pathway to high-quality multi-asset class content. Consolidating access and entitlements will help us simplify our data landscape, enhance controls and deliver new client value, faster.”

By bringing together two trusted franchises with global reach, the collaboration strengthens control and auditability, supports regulatory requirements, and enables front-to-back workflows across markets, risk, finance and wealth. This helps the Bank deliver consistent, data-driven client experiences with greater speed.

FF NEWS TAKE: This agreement moves the needle significantly for regulatory-driven technology adoption, emphasizing efficiency and control across the organization. Standard Chartered’s commitment to a single, governed pathway for multi-asset content validates the need for rigorous data governance at scale. We will be watching for the measurable impact on their internal front-to-back workflows, specifically how quickly they can convert their simplified data structure into faster, data-driven client value and what this competitive advantage forces other global banks to prioritize in their own vendor strategies.