STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

05 April 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 17 February 2023 (the "Programme").

Ordinary shares:

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 2,834,558,808 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 708,639,702.

Any share purchases pursuant to the Programme 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 17 February 2023.

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/5478V_1-2023-4-5.pdf

Enquiries to:

Gregg J Powell, Head of Investor Relations                       +44 (0) 20 7885 5172

Shaun Gamble, Director, Group Media Relations:            +44 (0) 20 7885 5934