02 July 2026, India – Standard Chartered today announced that it has processed a remittance payment under the new retail payments scheme from Swift. In a world-first, Westpac (Australia) sent a transaction to India via Standard Chartered via this scheme. Leveraging its advanced capabilities in India, Standard Chartered enabled near real-time credit to the beneficiary bank, demonstrating a major leap in the country’s payment ecosystem.

This transaction was completed in 37 seconds end-to-end. This reiterates the Bank’s ability to complete an end-to-end transaction with any participating bank in India in record time using Swift rails. As well as the fastest possible settlement time, Swift’s retail payments scheme delivers benefits to both senders and receivers of international payments, including end-to-end transparency so that a payment can be tracked, upfront certainty of cost with no hidden fees, and no surprise FX deductions, so that the amount that is sent is exactly what lands in the beneficiary’s bank account.

At an event hosted by Swift in collaboration with the Indian Banks’ Association, focused on modernising payments, P D Singh, CEO, India & South Asia, Standard Chartered was felicitated to mark the achievement as the first bank in India to process a payment under the Swift scheme.

P D Singh, CEO, India & South Asia, at Standard Chartered, said, “Our cross-border and network capabilities have been the cornerstones of the Bank’s sharp focus across key markets including India. It is indeed a moment of great pride for Standard Chartered, India, to be globally the first bank to process a payment within seconds under Swift’s retail payment scheme. We’re enabling people all over the world to send money back to India just as easily as they can send money domestically.

With this initiative they will get a truly best-in-class payments experience backed by the security of the banking ecosystem, and we’re delighted to be working with the industry to make it possible,” Singh added.

Kiran Shetty, Chief Executive of Swift India and South Asia, said, “This demonstrates the power of Swift’s cutting-edge capabilities; leveraging its existing global rails to drive real transformation in cross-border payments. For India, the world’s largest recipient of remittances, where they play a significant role in GDP, this evolution is particularly critical.

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National, 2^nd July 2026: AU Small Finance Bank (AU SFB), India’s largest Small Finance Bank and among the first in over a decade to receive in-principle approval for transition into a Universal Bank, has entered into a strategic partnership with Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) to launch an industry-first initiative, “Suhana Safar” – a Recurring Deposit (RD)-backed auto loan scheme designed to make car ownership more accessible for aspiring first-time buyers of the most popular models; Alto K10,
S-Presso, Celerio, and WagonR. 

Suhana Safar addresses one of the most common barriers to first-time car ownership – the challenge of mobilising a down payment and committing to an EMI, without prior financial readiness.

Under the scheme, a customer opens a Recurring Deposit (RD) account with AU SFB and deposits a fixed monthly amount – equivalent to the prospective car EMI, for a period of three to six months. The RD earns interest during this tenure, and on maturity, the accumulated amount is utilised as the down payment, following which the Bank sanctions and disburses the auto loan.

As a structured RD-backed solution, the scheme enables customers to build savings, earn interest, and assess their repayment comfort before availing the loan, thereby creating a seamless, end-to-end journey from disciplined saving to confident ownership within a single banking relationship.

The scheme creates a win–win proposition for both the customer and the Bank, as it enables the Bank to assess the customer’s creditworthiness at two stages – initially at enrolment and subsequently at the time of loan disbursement.

Currently, AU SFB offers RD interest rates ranging from 4.75% to 7.40% per annum for the general public, and 5.25% to 7.90% per annum for senior citizens.

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