Private Equity
The bank is expected to take a restructuring charge of about $160 million from the sale. : Standard Chartered PLC (STAN.L) has agreed terms for the sale of its private equity division, ending a more than two-year effort to shed a business the bank no longer deemed central to its strategy. StanChart will sell a majority of the private equity arm’s investment portfolio to funds managed by Intermediate Capital Group Plc (ICP.L), the bank said on Monday, a deal first reported by Reuters in August.

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