On January 30, Liu Jun, President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), met with visiting Standard Chartered Group Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters. The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including the global economic and financial landscape, as well as financial cooperation between China and the UK. Also present at the meeting were Zhang Weiwu, Vice President of ICBC, and Lu Jing, President of Standard Chartered Bank (China).
ICBC and Standard Chartered Group are important strategic partners for each other, having carried out profound collaboration across financial markets, asset custody, payment and clearing, and trade finance, achieving substantial results. Both parties will earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of China and the UK, strengthen cooperative innovation in areas such as green finance and cross-border renminbi business, jointly serve bilateral trade flows, and work hand-in-hand to open a new chapter for China-UK financial cooperation, thereby contributing financial strength to the development of a long-term and stable comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations.
Headquartered in London, Standard Chartered Group is a global systemically important bank and also a member of the Belt and Road Bankers Roundtable (BRBR) mechanism.
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