Standard Chartered PLC Transaction in Own Shares (1078S)

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RNS Number : 1078S

Standard Chartered PLC

01 November 2023

 
 
                                 STANDARD CHARTERED PLC 
 
                                    01 November 2023 
 
                               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 Goldman Sachs International, 
    pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously detailed in the announcement 
                                    of 31 July 2023. 
 
 
 
 
     Ordinary shares: 
   Date of purchase:                                01 November 2023 
 
     Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:   2,869,860 
 
     Lowest price paid per share:                     612.60 pence 
 
     Highest price paid per share:                    636.00 pence 
 
     Average price paid per share:                    621.65 pence 
 
 
                       Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased today according to 
                                                                          each trading venue: 
 
 
      Venue              Weighted average  Aggregate number    Lowest price     Highest price 
                         price paid per       of shares       paid per share   paid per share 
                          share (GB pence)      purchased         (GB pence)       (GB pence) 
                                                                                 London Stock 
           Exchange               621.74           1,329,040          612.60           636.00 
          CBOE BXE                621.50           1,124,825          613.40           635.40 
          CBOE CXE                621.76            415,995           612.60           635.40 
 
 
 
    As of close of business London time on the trading day preceding the date 
    of this announcement, SC had applied an aggregate of US$923,808,768.28 
    to share purchases pursuant to the share buy-back programme announced 
    on 31 July 2023. 
 
 
 
 
                                                 SC intends to cancel the purchased shares. 
 
 
             Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 2,672,072,337 
                     ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights 
                                                                 in SC will be 668,018,084. 
 
 
                     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/1078S_1-2023-11-1.pdf 
 
 
 
 
                               This announcement will also be available on SC's website at: 
                                            https://www.sc.com/en/investors/stock-exchange- 
                                                                             announcements/ 
 
                                                                              Enquiries to: 
 
                            Gregg J Powell, Head of Investor Relations [phone] 
 
                        Shaun Gamble, Director, Group Media Relations: [phone] 
 

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