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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

Standard Chartered beats UK banks thanks to Asian focus

STANDARD Chartered showed off the benefit of its focus on Asian markets today with a jump in trading income as clients took a more “risk on” approach to investing.

With UK markets moribund, the London based bank enjoyed a day in the sun with first quarter profits up 5.2% to $1.22 billion (£1 billion).

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