Standard Chartered will eliminate roughly 7,800 jobs by 2030, around 15 per cent of its corporate functions, as the Asia-focused lender leans on AI to slim down its back office. The bank employs nearly 82,000 people worldwide, and more than 52,000 of them sit in the corporate functions being targeted.CEO Bill Winters, the UK's longest-serving major bank chief, was unusually blunt about the rationale when he unveiled the plan at an investor day in Hong Kong on Tuesday. "It's not cost cutting: it's replacing, in some cases, lower-value human capital with the financial capital and investment capital we're putting in,"…