Thailand: Standard Chartered plans to exit retail banking

Thailand: Standard Chartered plans to exit retail banking

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Standard Chartered Plc plans to transfer its Thai retail banking business to Thailand’s Tisco Financial Group Pcl next year, exiting an operation that the U.K. lender said lacked the scale to generate adequate returns.

The net asset value is about 5.5 billion baht ($153 million), according to a stock exchange filing by Tisco on Thursday, which didn’t disclose a price for the deal.

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