Talk:Standard Chartered/Archives/2012

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This article doesn't cover the take over of Asian region rather Indian branches of Grindlays Bank by Standard Chartered bank. I beleive this happened in the year 2001. Please do check this and add to the article.

Thanks anand S anand.s@cgi.com…

Grindlays Bank
History section of this article has mention of Grindlays Bank and is wikified, but reference points to this self-same article. I was trying to find information on Grindlays Bank. Should an article really point to itself in this way? Oswald Glinkmeyer 15:01, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * This has since been remedied by the creation of a Grindlays Bank article. Oswald Glinkmeyer (talk) 11:54, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

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Overlap with Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)
This article needs to be clearly related to the Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) article, with overlapping information, such as history, removed from one. Earthlyreason (talk) 06:43, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Minor Edit
Removed duplicative reference to StanChart's IDR offer from the Recent Alliances... section, it is repeated with a footnote about 5 lines further down.

Luckyaxolotl (talk) 12:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

SC global footprint
UK is missing!?! --Oakhonor (talk) 10:03, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have removed the map, it was out of date and inaccurate.Rangoon11 (talk) 13:22, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Sponsorship
In September 2009 it was announced that Standard Chartered had agreed to become the main sponsor of Liverpool Football Club for the period between July 2010 and the end of the 2013-14 football season. The deal was reported to have a total value of £80 million.

This type of switch over form banking to soccer reflects distraction from real to simulated game with a view to hide various mischief committed by the bank. Noam Chomsky rightly observed, "Sports...is another crucial example of the indoctrination system... Already the man was inching onto sacred ground...Sports offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance. ... [sports are] training in irrational jingoism". Baudrillard also described this simulated reality, though in a different language, " "Empty war: it brings to mind those games in World Cup football which often have to be decided by penalties (sorry spectacle), because of the impossibility of forcing a decision. As though the players punished themselves by means of 'penalties' for not having been able to play and take the match in full battle. We might as well have begun with the penalties and dispensed with the game and its sterile stand-off. So with the war Gulf War: it could have begun at the end and spared us the forced spectacle of this unreal war where nothing is extreme and which, whatever the outcome, will leave behind the smell of undigested programming, and the entire world irritated as though after an unsuccessful copulation."

Standard Chartered Bank is "rightly" using this SPECTacular simulated war-game of accumulating fields as part of their propaganda machine for hiding the fact of making money-sign from money-sign (M-M'-M''... without any role of [C]apital and [C']ommodity as prescribed in classical formula.)

Charity and Welfare
Standard Chartered support Debate Mate, a British charity which provides debating and public speaking classes to underprivileged children and visually impaired around the world. Standard Chartered funded the 2012 Debate Mate outreach program in Zambia. However, all these charity works, like other charitable activities,(a) to mask the surplus labor extraction, (b) to hide the scams;(c)to distract the attention of the public from scams as it is found in the Standard Chartered Bank's history; (d)to save the tax. Thus O'Connor, when he reviewed Derrida's deconstruction of charity, observed that everyday acts of charity perpetuate existing social hierarchies, i.e. vertical structure of the society is preserved. In case of welfare, Standard Chartered follows the path of Welfare Capitalism that entails the fact that the concerned society is lacking social security and needs help from the corporate. [New Addition: Charities are made from the profit earned from the customers.] One part of their charity program for visually impaired persons, is branded as "Seeing is believing". "Seeing is believing"-slogan leads to naive realism and lacks epistemological insight as it obliterates other sensory organs. Bertrand Russell opined, “We all start from ‘naïve realism,’ i.e., the doctrine the things are what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stones are hard and snow is cold. But physics assures us that the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and coldness of snow are not the greenness, hardness and coldness that we know in our own experience, but something very different. The observer, when he (sic) seems to himself (sic) to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself (sic). Thus science seems to be at war with itself: when it most means to be objective, it finds itself plunged into subjectivity against its will. Naïve realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows that naïve realism is false. Therefore naïve realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.” Emphasizing on "seeing" only is condemned in epistemology as other sense organs are ignored and it is technically called as the fallacy of ocularcentrism. If and only if snatching away money-sign is the only concern of the bankers, they can ignore such philosophical brooding by using catchy slogans. And the agents of the bankers perfectly know the know-how of optic illusion, e.g., agents, when they are meeting homo consumens are showing insurance cum investment bond with small illegible letters for few moments of very good hospitalitywith allegedly false assurances by exploiting the trust of the consumers. This type of catchy slogan reflects the inherent illiteracy of the super-rich. Deleuzeand Guattari rightly said in their book, “Writing has never been capitalism’s thing. Capitalism is profoundly illiterate.”