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LONDON - Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) PLC (OTC:SCBFF) announced on Wednesday a comprehensive update to its financial reporting structure, aimed at enhancing clarity and decision-making across the banking group. The changes, which come into effect from January 1, 2025, involve a re-allocation of certain costs and income, as well as a simplification of product income hierarchy and geographic reporting.
The bank has re-allocated treasury economics, corporate centre costs, and tax charges to better reflect the returns generated by its business segments and geographies. This move is also intended to reduce the drag on return on tangible equity from Central & Others (C&O). The re-allocations include treasury income, corporate centre costs, Treasury Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs), Additional Tier 1 (AT1) costs, bank levy, and segmental tax charges.
In terms of product income reporting, the bank has simplified the hierarchy by aligning each product with a single business segment, consolidating ’Mortgage income’ and ’Deposit income’ into ’Mortgage & deposit income’, and combining ’Treasury income’ and ’Other income’ into ’Treasury & Other income’. Additional information such as tangible equity over time and income breakdowns for various segments will also be provided.
Geographic reporting has been refined to allocate income based on transfer pricing principles, compensating each location for the services performed. The Group has also ceased a management charge previously paid by markets to the Group and has adjusted the allocation of MREL costs across its markets to match the usage of Group RWA.
Furthermore, Standard Chartered has removed an accounting asymmetry from its underlying net interest income (NII) by reporting both the funding costs and the income from FX swaps in non-NII, aligning with other multinational banking groups. This change has resulted in an increase in underlying NII by $650 million for FY’24 and $700 million for FY’23, with no impact on underlying total income.
The bank has provided a data pack with revised financial information on its website to facilitate comparisons at its upcoming first quarter results on May 2, 2025. It is important to note that these changes do not affect the reported financial performance of the Group, and all guidance given at FY’24 results remains unchanged.
This restructuring of financial disclosures is based on a press release statement from Standard Chartered PLC.
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