Whois & Analysis for sc.com

Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London.

It operates a network of more than 1,200 branches and outlets (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) across more than 70 countries and employs around 87,000 people.

It is a universal bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services.

Despite its UK base, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around 90% of its profits come from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia and Egypt.

The corresponding adjective is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner.

The term has come into wider usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.

Private banking is banking, investment and other financial services provided by banks to high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) with high levels of income or sizable assets.

The term "private" refers to customer service rendered on a more personal basis than in mass-market retail banking, usually via dedicated bank advisers.

It does not refer to a private bank, which is a non-incorporated banking institution.

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa.

Asia covers an area of, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area.

The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations.

Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4.4 billion people.

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent.

At about 30.3 million km² (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4 % of its total land area.

With 1.2 billion people as of 2016, it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population.

The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.

It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states (countries), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.