Standard Chartered PLC is a multinational

Multinational corporation

A multi national corporation or enterprise , is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation...

 financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with operations in more than seventy countries. It operates a network of over 1,700 branches and outlets (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) and employs around 80,000 people.

It is a universal bank

Universal bank

A universal bank participates in many kinds of banking activities and is both a commercial bank and an investment bank.The concept is most relevant in the United Kingdom and the United States, where historically there was a distinction drawn between pure investment banks and commercial banks. In...

 and has operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking and treasury services.