Buyback Nears $1B, Blockchain Treasury Push, and Diverging 2026 Price Targets
London — 22 December 2025. Standard Chartered PLC stock is ending 2025 with a cocktail of investor-friendly capital returns, headline-grabbing digital-finance initiatives, and a widening debate over how much upside is left after a powerful rally.
On the tape today, Standard Chartered (STAN) finished around the 1,792p area (≈ £17.92) with a market cap near £40.6bn, trading close to its 52‑week highs after a year in which the shares have materially outperformed many traditional UK financial peers. [1]
But the more interesting story on 22.12.2025 is what’s happening behind that price: the bank’s buyback machine is still humming, its transaction-banking and tokenisation teams are busy turning “blockchain” into “boringly…
