Standard Chartered announced the appointment of Naveen Mallela as Global Head of Payments effective 4 May 2026. Naveen will be based in Singapore and will report to Mahesh Kini, Global Head of Cash Management, Standard Chartered. In his role, Naveen will lead the bank?s integrated payments organisation bringing together Collections, Clearing and Payments teams into a single organisation reflecting the rising client demand for end-to-end solutions.
The global payments team will design and deliver solutions across the entire payments? lifecycle across traditional and emerging tokenised and on-chain payment flows. Naveen joins the Bank from JP Morgan Chase where he was the Global Co-Head of Kinexys (formerly Onyx), the bank?s permissioned blockchain business unit focusing on real-time, 24/7, cross-border payments and digital asset settlement.
With more than 25 years driving global transaction banking and payments innovation experience, Naveen brings deep expertise in modernising payment infrastructures and scaling next-generation solutions.
Standard Chartered PLC is the leading banking group in the emerging countries. Net banking product breaks down by activity as follows:
- retail and private banking (70.3%): sale of products and traditional banking services, issue of credit cards, consumer and real estate loans, small and medium business loans, on-line banking, etc.;
- commercial, corporate, investment, and market banking (28.4%): business financing, credit unions, sales of structured products, cash and rate management, security compensation and conservation, fund management, etc.;
- other (1.3%).
At the end of 2024, the group had USD 464.5 billion in current deposits and USD 281 billion in current loans.
Income is distributed geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (1.4%), Hong Kong (24.5%), Singapore (13.2%), China (6.8%), India (6.8%), the United States (6.6%), South Korea (5.5%), United Arab Emirates (4.3%), Taiwan (3%) and other (27.9%).
This super rating is the result of a weighted average of the rankings based on the following ratings: Valuation (Composite), EPS Revisions (4 months), and Visibility (Composite). We recommend that you carefully review the associated descriptions.
Investor
Investor
This super composite rating is the result of a weighted average of the rankings based on the following ratings: Fundamentals (Composite), Valuation (Composite), EPS Revisions (1 year), and Visibility (Composite). We recommend that you carefully review the associated descriptions.
-
Global
Global
This composite rating is the result of an average of the rankings based on the following ratings: Fundamentals (Composite), Valuation (Composite), Financial Estimates Revisions (Composite), Consensus (Composite) and Visibility (Composite). The company must be covered by at least 4 of these 5 ratings for the calculation to be carried out. We recommend that you carefully review the associated descriptions.
-
Quality
Quality
This composite rating is the result of an average of rankings based on the following ratings: Returns (Composite), Profitability (Composite) and Quality of Financial Reporting (Composite), and Financial Health (Composite). The company must be covered by at least 2 of these 3 ratings for the calculation to be performed. We recommend that you carefully read the associated descriptions.
ESG MSCI
ESG MSCI
The MSCI ESG score assesses a company’s environmental, social, and governance practices relative to its industry peers. Companies are rated from CCC (laggard) to AAA (leader). This rating helps investors incorporate sustainability risks and opportunities into their investment decisions.
