A pedestrian walks past a branch of Standard Chartered bank in Hong Kong on August 1, 2012. Standard Chartered on Wednesday said its first-half net profit rose 12 percent to a record high thanks to

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A pedestrian walks past a branch of Standard Chartered bank in Hong Kong on August 1, 2012. Standard Chartered on Wednesday said its first-half net profit rose 12 percent to a record high thanks to strong revenue growth, despite an increasingly challenged economic environment.

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