About
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Standard Chartered in Europe and the Americas
The Europe and the Americas business is a centre of expertise for the Bank’s major product offerings, allowing us to provide a wide range of services, platforms and capabilities to meet the growing needs of our clients. As one of the Bank’s fastest-growing client regional franchises, our business in Europe and the Americas is pivotal to delivering the strategic aspirations of the Bank.
Standard Chartered in France
Opened in March 2008, our Paris branch offers Corporate and Institutional Banking products and services to leading multinationals and financial institutions. It embraces the three Valued Behaviours of the Bank: Do the right thing, Never settle, Better together and supports our Purpose: Driving commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity. We look to serve the needs of our French, Italian and Iberic domiciled clients by providing banking services and advice on strategic products including merger and acquisition, corporate and project and export finance, debt capital market, risk management, cash management and trade finance as well as focusing on accompanying clients on their project expansion in our core markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Recognition and awards
Our Paris branch successfully passed the gender equality index in 2021, the first time we were eligible for it. The index is made up of four indicators to estimate the gaps in terms of remuneration between women and men and is a legal obligation in France for all entities with more than 50 headcount per calendar year.
Our leaders in France
Caroline Eber-Ittel
Chief Executive Officer, France and Head of Coverage Europe
Caroline Eber-Ittel is Chief Executive Officer for France and Head of Coverage for Europe having joined the bank in August 2013.
Based in Paris, Caroline is responsible for expanding the Bank’s client relationships with Corporates and Financial Institutions.
She started her career at HypoVereinsbank, working in the corporate development department prior to joining Deutsche Bank, undertaking different roles in risk management, financing and client coverage. Caroline was Managing Director, Head of Corporate Banking for Deutsche Bank France from 2009.
Jean-Baptiste Chambaud
Managing Director, Head of Corporates Sales for Continental Europe
Jean-Baptiste joined Standard Chartered in 2014 and has over 15years of experience in risk management for large European MNCs including FX, Rates and Commodities. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Jean-Baptiste worked for 5 years at RBS where he started in Structured Rates Solutions and then moved to the large Cap FX desk covering European names. Jean-Baptiste holds a master’s degree in Finance from Dauphine University, an MSc from University of London and completed in 2017 an Executive Master at ESCP.
Isabelle Chastagner
Managing Director, Co-head Client Coverage
Isabelle is a member of the Country Management Group with over 21 years of experience in top tier investment banking. Her qualifications include a Master’s degree in Finance and Management and a Master’s degree in Financial Markets, Commodities and Enterprise.
Quentin Savinaud
Managing Director, Co-head Client Coverage
Quentin is a member of the Country Management Group with over 20 years of experience in financial services. He joined Standard Chartered in 2008, from HSBC. His qualifications include a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance from NEOMA Business School.