bank hong kong limited type private industry banking founded 2004 1859 first branch headquarters victoria hong kong key people katherine tsang chairperson of the board benjamin hung ceo products financial services website www.sc.com hk standard chartered hong kong officially standard chartered bank hong kong limited traditional chinese is a licensed bank incorporated in hong kong and a subsidiary of standard chartered . contents 1 history 2 local incorporation 3 banknotes 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit the history of standard chartered in hong kong dates back to 1859 when the chartered bank of india australia and china opened a branch in hong kong . the bank started issuing banknotes of the hong kong dollar in 1862 and still does so today . in 2000 standard chartered acquired hong kong based retail banking business of the chase manhattan bank including chase manhattan card company limited . in 2010 standard chartered acquired the hong kong consumer operations of ge capital . 1 an office tower the standard chartered bank building in des voeux road central hong kong is named after the bank . the building is now owned by hang lung group . the chairperson of the board is katherine tsang younger sister of former chief executive of hong kong donald tsang and formerly chairwoman for greater china operations . she took up the top job on 1 january 2011 succeeding chow chung kong who held the post from 2004 . 2 3 local incorporation edit on 1 july 2004 standard chartered completed the local incorporation of its hong kong businesses namely the hong kong branch of standard chartered bank manhattan card company ltd standard chartered finance ltd standard chartered international trade products ltd and chartered capital corporation ltd. the bank operates as a licensed bank in hong kong under the name of standard chartered bank hong kong ltd. banknotes edit standard chartered bank hong kong limited is one of the three commercial banks licensed by the hong kong monetary authority to issue banknotes in hong kong . the other two being the bank of china hong kong and the hongkong and shanghai banking corporation . the bank has been issuing banknotes since the 1860s as the chartered bank of india australia and china . leading to the incorporation of the bank on 1 july 2004 the legislative council of hong kong amended legal tender notes issue ordinance . the amendment replaced standard chartered bank with its newly incorporated subsidiary standard chartered bank hong kong ltd as one of the note issuing banks in hong kong . 4 see also edit list of banks in hong kong standard chartered hong kong marathon references edit yung chester ; or amy 2010 02 26 . ge to sell hong kong unit . wall street journal . issn 0099 9660 . retrieved 2015 04 11 . standard chartered bank hong kong limited appoints katherine tsang as new chairperson scb press release 10 january 2011 tsang sister moves up the ladder the standard january 11 2011 cap 65 legal tender notes issue ordinance pdf . retrieved 7 september 2012 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to standard chartered hong kong . standard chartered hong kong homepage manhattan card a hong kong bank note issued by the chartered bank in 1962 1975 front back v t e standard chartered divisions and subsidiaries current standard chartered bangladesh standard chartered ghana standard chartered hong kong standard chartered kenya standard chartered korea standard chartered nepal standard chartered pakistan standard chartered sri lanka standard chartered tanzania standard chartered thailand standard chartered uganda standard chartered zambia standard chartered zimbabwe former allahabad bank1 standard bank2 standard chartered bank of canada3 chartered trust3 predecessors american express bank bank of british west africa chartered bank of india australia and china colesberg bank grindlays bank hsinchu international bank p & o bank eastern bank standard bank union bank places 6 battery road standard chartered bank building people mervyn davies peter sands james wilson bill winters sponsorships the greatest race on earth hong kong marathon jersey marathon kuala lumpur marathon mumbai marathon nairobi marathon singapore marathon singapore sevens other seeing is believing 1nationalized 2spun off 3sold category commons v t e hong kong currency topics banknotes of the hkd coins of the hkd hong kong dollar coinage 1 mil 1 5 10 20 50 1 2 5 10 banknotes 1 5 10 1 5 10 20 25 50 100 150 500 1000 banknote issuers bank of china hong kong hong kong monetary authority the hongkong and shanghai banking corporation standard chartered bank hong kong the oriental bank corporation mercantile bank of india london and china retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title standard chartered hong kong & oldid 697742511 categories currencies of hong kongbanks of hong kongstandard charteredcompanies established in 2004banknote issuers of hong konghidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages edit links this page was last modified on 1 january 2016 at 16 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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