Liverpool backed by Standard Chartered despite Luis Suárez row Standard Chartered is a multicultural, multinational organisation and we fully support and share the club's efforts to combat racism and any sort of discrimination. We remain very happy with our sponsorship of the club. Such remarks come at an especially sensitive time as Liverpool pursue more global commercial partners. The club's American owners are actively searching for a stadium sponsor to build their new £300million arena on Stanley Park, and any suggestion lucrative backers will be dissuaded in the light of recent events would cause untold damage. Liverpool require a minimum of £150million in outside investment before they can press ahead with their relocation from their current Anfield site, so their strong reiteration of their anti-racism stance in recent days has been a necessity. Both managing director, Ian Ayre, and Kenny Dalglish, whose charismatic presence has been used to attract investors into the club in the past, both delivered a passionate defence of the club over the last 48 hours. The supportive stance of Standard Chartered is a welcome reassurance. The bank is in its second year of an estimated £20million-a-year shirt deal with the Merseyside club, which runs until 2014. It will be noted that the bank's most lucrative market is in Africa, Asia and across the Middle East, where sensitivities about any racial controversy could cause most embarrassment for Liverpool and their chief sponsor if there was a strong reaction. The Standard Chartered position would suggest, as Liverpool have argued throughout, that beyond the jurisdiction of the English FA the case against Suárez is not perceived to be as cut and dried as many in this country have presumed. The club is confident global investors will not take as dim a view of the club's reaction as has been claimed. Liverpool's swift response to the latest race row involving Adeyemi has received praise from his club, Oldham Athletic. "The chairman and directors of Oldham Athletic Football Club would like to thank Liverpool Football Club and officers of the Merseyside Police for their concerns and painstaking efforts in investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident involving Tom Adeyemi," read a statement. The club and player have been notified of every detail during the progress of the investigation. The club would also like to thank the numerous fans from Liverpool and Oldham, and also those from around the country who have sent letters of support to Tom.