Bill Winters, StanChart CEO: Positive on China, 5% growth expected

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 (51.8%): 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 (47.3%): business financing, credit unions, sales of structured products, cash and rate management, security compensation and conservation, fund management, etc.; - other (0.9%). At the end of 2023, the group had USD 497.4 billion in current deposits and USD 331.9 billion in current loans. Income is distributed geographically as follows: Europe and the Americas (9.5%), Asia (70.2%), Africa and the Middle East (16.2%) and other (4.1%).