<div id="readability-page-1"><div id="parent_top_div">Standard Chartered has begun evacuating staff from offices in Dubai and told them to work from home, two sources said on Wednesday, as lenders step up precautionary measures following an Iranian warning that Tehran will target US and Israeli banks in the region. British bank Standard Chartered has a large presence in the United Arab Emirates, with Dubai now a large financial hub for leading international banks including JPMorgan and HSBC , as well as law firms and asset managers. Iran will target economic and banking interests linked to the US and Israel in the region, after an attack on an Iranian bank, a spokesperson for Tehran's Khatam al-Anbiya military command headquarters said on Wednesday. Many staff at foreign and local businesses had been told by their employers to work from home following US and Israeli attacks on Iran, which prompted Tehran to fire missiles at targets across the Middle East, causing damage and deaths across the Gulf and travel chaos. The creation of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in 2004 kickstarted Dubai's push to draw financial firms. By the end of 2025, DIFC hosted more than 290 banks, 102 hedge funds, 500 wealth management firms and 1,289 family-related entities. Like many international lenders such as StanChart, HSBC has also sought to expand across the Gulf, and has highlighted the region as key to its wider group strategy of capitalising on inter-regional global deal and capital flows to boost the bank's overall profitability. Georges Elhedery, HSBC's CEO, said on Monday that the bank's &#34;conviction in the GCC's (Gulf Cooperation Council) fundamentals and its future is unchanged&#34;, in some of the first comments from an international bank boss on the growing crisis. &#34;The safety of our colleagues and customers remain our top priority,&#34; HSBC said in a statement on Wednesday. &#34;We are actively following government guidelines alongside our internal plans to manage working arrangements. We are communicating safety advice with colleagues as appropriate.&#34; Separately, HSBC closed all branches in Qatar until further notice, according to a customer notice. A spokesperson for JPMorgan declined to comment</div></div>

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匯豐控股

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渣打銀行已從其迪拜辦公室撤離員工，並指示他們在家工作，原因是由於伊朗對美國和以色列銀行的威脅導致安全擔憂加劇。這一預防措施是在該地區緊張局勢升級的背景下采取的，包括伊朗的導彈攻擊。其他銀行，如滙豐，也在調整運營，強調安全並遵循政府指引。迪拜國際金融中心已成為金融機構的重要樞紐，匯聚了眾多銀行和公司。滙豐已關閉其在卡塔爾的分行，直至另行通知，作為其安全措施的一部分

Standard Chartered evacuates staff from offices in Dubai: Report

- 標準渣打銀行已開始撤離迪拜辦公室員工，要求居家辦公。  
- 這一決定是由於伊朗威脅將針對美國和以色列的銀行採取行動。  
- 外資和本地企業的員工已被要求居家工作，響應中東地區的安全局勢。

據報道，渣打銀行從迪拜的辦公室撤離員工