Standard Chartered PLC Transaction in Own Shares (5616T)

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RNS Number : 5616T

Standard Chartered PLC

25 March 2021

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

25 March 2021

Transaction in own shares

Standard Chartered PLC ("SC") announces that today it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each from Merrill Lynch International ("BofA Securities"), pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously outlined on 25 February 2021 and detailed in the announcement of 26 February 2021.

Ordinary shares:

 
 Date of purchase:                25 March 2021 
 Aggregate number of ordinary 
  shares purchased:               2,207,891 
 Lowest price paid per share:     487.1000 pence 
 Highest price paid per share:    494.7000 pence 
 Weighted average price paid      489.8386 pence 
  per share: 
 

Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased today according to each trading venue:

 
                 Weighted average 
                    price paid          Aggregate        Lowest price      Highest price 
                     per share          number of        paid per share    paid per share 
     Venue          (GB pence)       shares purchased      (GB pence)        (GB pence) 
 London Stock 
  Exchange           489.9436           1,277,323          487.1000          494.5000 
 Turquoise           489.6724            176,915           487.3000          494.7000 
 Chi-X (CXE)         489.7728            246,000           487.3000          494.6000 
 BATS (BXE)          489.6608            413,000           487.2000          494.5000 
 Aquis UK            489.6785            94,653            487.3000          494.6000 
 

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will hold no ordinary shares in treasury and will have 3,121,437,717 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total voting rights in SC will be 780,359,429. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, SC under the FCA's Disclosure Guidelines and Transparency Rules.

Any such share purchases will be effected in accordance with certain pre-set parameters and limits, and in accordance with applicable law and regulation as described in more detail in SC's announcement of 26 February 2021.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/5616T_1-2021-3-25.pdf

This announcement will also be available on SC's website at:

https://www.sc.com/en/investors/stock-exchange-announcements/

Enquiries to:

   Mark Stride, Head of Investor Relations                 [phone] 
   Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations                    [phone] 

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