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![](https://media.everythingbrunei.com/public/G6_rtxpNGG6wHHV0x1Xuu-3g91REoqborfY7jCcgeti.jpeg) In today’s fast paced environment, having a reliable financial partner that makes banking and financial planning easy and seamless is a crucial aspect of ensuring that you can stay on top of your finances with a forward-looking point of view for your future. As the oldest major international retail bank in Brunei, Standard Chartered Bank (“SC”) has been in operations since 1958. Comprising of 3 branches and 2 Priority Banking Centres as well as a network of ATMs and CDMs, the Bank offers universal banking services for individuals and businesses, with a comprehensive product suite to cater to our clients’ banking and financing needs as well as investment needs through its related capital market service licensed subsidiary, Standard Chartered Securities (B) Sdn Bhd (“SCSB”). Many individuals find challenges with balancing their day to day banking needs while also planning for long term financial security. Our retail banking services offers convenient digital solutions for everyday banking transactions, while our wealth management capabilities provide expert advice on investments, wealth accumulation and protection. A key differentiator with SC and SCSB is its powerful digital capabilities across its retail services and wealth platforms. Winning the Asian Banking & Finance’s awards for International Retail Bank of the Year as well as Wealth Management Platform of the Year cements the bank’s commitment to providing exceptional service and client experience through our digital banking services. **Banking with the times** Having also won Best Digital Bank numerous times, SC’s mobile app and online banking offers the widest range of services available making the app and its capabilities one of the most comprehensive in the market. **“SC’s mobile app and online banking offers the widest range of services available, making the app and its capabilities one of the most comprehensive in the market”** From retrieving account statements, to updating your personal details or renewing your credit card and performing funds transfers, the SC’s mobile app can help you manage your finances anytime, anywhere with convenience. With its powerful digital platform, individual investors can also view the latest pricing on their investments, retrieve and download monthly portfolio or consolidated statements on all securities for up to 12 months. As the only platform in the market offering this capability, it empowers clients with transparency and more hand on management of their investment portfolio. Keeping clients safe from scams and fraudulent transaction is also a key focus for SC. With ever evolving methods of scams and fraud on the rise, clients are further empowered with being able to block their credit card instantly and managing disputed transactions via online banking should incidents happen. Before that, clients would receive alert notifications on their transactions and require 2 factor authentication. To add to the mitigation efforts, fraud surveillance teams may contact clients to authorise transactions if they appear suspicious. **Enabling clients to grow their wealth** Winning Wealth Management Platform of the Year, SCSB continues to take the lead in enabling clients with tools and platforms that support them in making better informed decisions when it comes to managing their wealth. Whilst SCSB was established in 2016 in line with the implementation of the Securities Markets Order, Standard Chartered has been in the wealth management space for more than 20 years in Brunei. Through continuous investment in enhancing the tools and capability features that our clients can access, SCSB has built up a sizeable shelf of holistic offerings that make investing not only convenient but easily accessible. **“Winning Wealth Management Platform of the Year, SCSB continues to take the lead in supporting customers on their wealth journey”**** ** With more than 70 Unit Trust Funds distributed across 12 Fund Providers, over 190 Bonds offerings and Structured Notes offerings, the wide range of options can be overwhelming for investors to decide on where to start. As such, SCSB offers a variety of resources to empower our valued clients to self-serve and stay abreast on market developments in addition to a deeply experienced team of fully licensed Wealth Consultants, Relationship Managers and Investment Counsellors. The local team is further supported by global research and investment specialists through the Standard Chartered network providing timely market outlook and global survey/report insights. Clients have access to Standard Chartered house views through Market views on-the-go. Our global resources made available on our website enable our clients to analyse the financial markets around the world with featured articles such as Global Market Outlook, Weekly Market Views and Market Watch. In addition, they can also access SC Money Insights, a podcast series created to bring our clients the latest market views for those who prefer audio. Our Interactive Fund Library, a first in the market is hosted on our website where clients can view, search and compare the available funds, gaining access to key fund information such as factsheets, fund performance and annual reports. Paired with our Fund Select feature, clients can also view funds which are selected based on the merits of their performance, manager expertise and investment process. The selected funds are analysed by our global team of experienced fund analysts who apply a “3P” framework: Performance, People and Process for fund due diligence. Through our SC Wealth Select resource available on our website, clients are further empowered with advice on adopting key concepts in understanding the purpose of their wealth objectives through the “Today, Tomorrow and Forever” approach across different stages in life, adopting our 5 key guiding wealth principles which are “Discipline, Diversification, Time in the Market, Risk vs Return and Protection” to help them make consistent investment decisions. “When we talk about enabling our clients with the right tools, it really is all about educating our clients on the core principles of investing and understanding their risk appetite in line with the range of products we have available for them to build up a well-diversified portfolio that will meet their financial aspirations and goals,” says Brenda Low, CEO of Standard Chartered Securities. ![](https://media.everythingbrunei.com/public/aUDv7lV8rksdfO-NzQM4F-7E6Vixr6sqULrjHoN_jlm.jpeg)

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