Standard Chartered’s Roberto Hoornweg: Certainty, Resilience and Connectivity Are Reshaping Cross-border Finance

“We are now in a world where price is no longer decisive. What matters instead is operational resilience and certainty of delivery,” Roberto Hoornweg, Chief Executive Officer of Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) at Standard Chartered, said at the bank’s China headquarters in Shanghai.

For Hoornweg, the value of these capabilities lies in helping clients identify trade and investment corridors that remain reliable in a more fragmented and uncertain world. Standard Chartered’s comparative advantage as a global network bank is precisely its ability to connect corporate and institutional clients across markets and provide integrated cross-border financial services.

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