Business Current Account

At Standard Chartered Bank, we understand that your business needs more from you than just managing financial transactions. That's why we are pleased to bring you a premium current account - Business Essential Account available in currencies including KES, USD, GBP, EUR, JPY. This single banking solution allows you to grow your business while we take care of all your business banking needs.

Going beyond the basic transactional features of cash and cheque deposit / withdrawal, funds transfer and remittances, you can avail of an array of Payments and Collections solutions with access to a corporate internet banking platform.

You can look forward to all these advantages:

Straight2Bank

• Straight2Bank (S2B) is a global web based platform that empowers you to make payments, trade and FX transactions online. It provides a fully integrated working capital platform with single access for all your transaction and reporting needs.

Cash Management Services

• Cut down on delays of days and even weeks in realising outstation cheques. Free yourself from constant tracking and follow-up of transfer of funds from outstation collection accounts.
• We offer a comprehensive range of collection solutions to meet your requirements like collection and clearing of local / outstation cheques, post dated cheque management, an e-alert facility for returned cheques, detailed report on all cheque collections and returns and much more.

Online Tax Payment facility

• Pay your Excise, Service & Direct taxes online just by filling in a simple application form. Your account will be debited and funds remitted to the tax authorities. You will receive an acknowledgement immediately after the amount has been debited from your account.

E - Alert facility for ITT/OTT & RTGS transactions

• Enjoy the convenience of e-alert services for all your remittance transactions. You can view inward / outward TT & RTGS advice delivered to your email automatically. Complete transaction details are captured in the advice relieving you of the hassle of tracking & monitoring transactions.

Additional features

• RTGS transactions through S2B
• Online Salary upload through S2B
• Electronic Funds Transfer
• Inward RTGS
• Inward Telegraphic Transfers
• Drafts on our branch locations
• Doorstep banking (cash, cheque & trade document pick-up / delivery)
• E-Statements

We look forward to serving you!

For more information, simply call our SME Banking Hotline +254 20 329 3901 or send us an email on SMEBanking.Kenya@sc.com to leave your information. Our Dedicated Relationship Managers will be in touch as soon as possible.