Standard Chartered’s global macro chief in Singapore left for APAC rival
Standard Chartered’s “exceptional” macro team might be led by women, but the bank has just lost one of its top macro traders – a man.
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Christopher Stanton joined Macquarie’s commodities team this month. He joined the Australian firm from Standard Chartered in Singapore, where he spent five years and was most recently its global head of macro electronic trading, covering the FX, commodities, and crypto trading teams.
It's understood that Stanton's role at Standard Chartered was replaced by Simon Wilson, who also heads the market analytics & AI team. A Standard Chartered spokesperson said that the firm continues "to build out our global trading capabilities, including ongoing digitisation in response to growing demand from clients to support them with cross-border risk management.”
Stanton was a lawyer before he was a trader, at white-shoe law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, mostly covering complex litigation involving financial instruments. Even longer before that, he was a JPMorgan trader in New York and London.
Stanton left Standard Chartered back in November last year, according to regulatory filings. He is not registered with Macquarie in Dubai, but he was granted a UAE golden visa residence a few months before that.
Standard Chartered’s macro team had a good 2025. While revenue increased by 12% overall, the bank notched a 15% increase in flow (electronic) income specifically. Stanton’s impact on that isn’t quantifiable, but the bank’s Q1 of 2026 global markets income was flat on Q1 of 2025. No comment.
Christopher Stanton and Macquarie did not respond to a request for comment.
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