Standard Chartered is considering another “one or two” aviation finance joint ventures and may list the one it launched in China earlier this year, said Sumit Dayal, the bank’s head of corporate finance.
StanChart’s aviation finance arm Pembroke, and Sichuan Development Holding, the largest state-owned enterprise in the Sichuan province, launched a joint venture in Sichuan last March, giving them a foothold in a market where airlines are set to spend $1tn on aircraft in the next 20 years.
The Chinese market already offers ample capital to airlines, so much so that Chinese money is expected to fund more than a third of the $261bn aircraft leasing market by 2022, according to an aviation data provider.