Standard Chartered's profit rises, beats estimates on trade loans, wealth management

Standard Chartered's third-quarter net profit rose 10 per cent, as strong growth in cross-border trade loans and wealth management buffered one of Hong Kong's three note-issuing banks from the city's commercial property slump and helped it beat analysts' estimates. Net profit increased to US$1.03 billion, or 44.5 US cents per share, in the quarter that ended in September, the London-based bank said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday. The result, based on global accounting rules, surpas ...