Tearsheet Podcast: The Business Of Finance

Get the full transcript here: https://tearsheet.co/podcasts/surveying-global-banking-and-niche-payments-with-standard-chartereds-anand-natarajan/ Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet editor in chief, Zack Miller. An interesting thing is starting to happen with partner banks. What began as the purview of some smaller, regional players is now becoming interesting to some of the largest global banks. For example, we spoke a couple of weeks ago to Citi about its plans to provide partner bank services for global firms. That means a brand or fintech with global aspirations could work with a single bank in each market, instead of partnering with different local players on the ground. Standard Chartered is already supporting its clients with its own extensive footprint in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. I spoke with Anand Natarajan, who covers the technology, media and fintech segments for the firm’s treasury services. At a conversation that began in Las Vegas in 2022 and continued into the beginnin