5 Dollars The Chartered Bank

The Chartered Bank was absorbed into Standard Chartered in 1969, the product of a merger with the Standard Bank of South Africa. These notes, issued under the old Chartered Bank name, were a transitional holdover — the Hong Kong branch continued issuing under the legacy name while the parent organization completed its rebranding. De La Rue's London printings for Hong Kong colonial circulation were a long-standing arrangement, with the watermark serving as the primary security measure in an era when the territory's note issuance remained tightly controlled under the Exchange Fund framework.