1000 Dollars Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered has issued banknotes in Hong Kong under a colonial-era ordinance that was preserved after the 1997 handover, making it one of three commercial banks still legally authorised to issue currency there — an arrangement almost unique in the modern world. At the $1000 level, notes see relatively low circulation velocity; most are used for large transactions, stored briefly, then returned to the banking system.

The 2003 series introduced upgraded security across the denominations following regional concerns about sophisticated counterfeiting in the late 1990s. The hologram strip on this value was among the more technically ambitious applied to any Hong Kong commercial issue at the time.