Banking on Change: How Standard Chartered Group Chief Executive Bill Winters Stays Ahead

Marla, we talk about redefiners and global leaders.

We've been so fortunate in healthcare, oil and gas, metals and mining, and our guest today literally is a redefiner, but in the global finance world.

In his career, he has redefined himself in his career as an entrepreneur and running one of the largest financial institutions in the world.

He's redefined the institution itself.

He's also shown the public-private partnership that's so effective in working with regulators through crises.

So I think this concept of the global leader in redefinition is right here today.

Yeah.

Look, it reminds me, Clark, of another redefiner, another global citizen.

Uh, you'll recall a few weeks ago, we had Andy Penn of Telstra, who lives in Australia, had really navigated both a tech transformation and an operational transformation.

I will have the pleasure of actually seeing Andy here in Austin next week.

So this, uh, redefining moment, these global leaders, you know, it, it very much is at the forefront of what we're seeing in the industry and market today.

I think for our listeners, in the world of so much change, today there are gonna be some great lessons learned, things to say, "I can use that in what I do day to day as I help redefine where my company's going."

Yeah, that's right.

And look, I'm really excited for our guest today.

He's actually the CEO of a bank that's been around for a very long time.

This is a bank that was started in 1853.

It has more than 80,000 employees around the world, 20 billion in operating income.

He stepped into the CEO role at a pretty turbulent time in the bank's history.

What he's built is truly a compelling story of transformation and, importantly, value creation.

Our guest today is Bill Winters, the group chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank, a global bank headquartered in London, but a household name in Asia and Africa and all the parts of the world that one would wanna be in.

Bill was co-chief executive of the investment bank in JP Morgan, where he spent 26 years, and after that he was an entrepreneur.

He started the private credit fund called Renshaw Bay.

Bill is also on the board of the International Rescue Committee, one of the great institutions of the world.

He's on the board of Stripe, and he's the chair of the Cornet Theater.

Bill, welcome to Redefiners.