Standard Chartered partners with CDC on $150m SCF programme

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Middle East & Africa, Asia-Pacific

CDC Group, the UK's development finance institution, and Standard Chartered have signed a memorandum of understanding for a supply chain finance programme that will increase financing for SME suppliers in Africa and South Asia. The first countries to benefit from this scheme are expected to...

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