Directors' interests

Standard Chartered PLC
19 May 2006


Standard Chartered PLC


1995 Employee Share Ownership Plan Trust (the 'Trust')


This is to advise you that Bedell Cristin Trustees Limited, the Trustee of the
Company's employee benefit trust used in connection with some of the Company's
employee share schemes has advised under a notification dated 18 May 2006 that
between 29 March 2006 and 17 May 2006 they disposed of a total of 1,842,971
Standard Chartered PLC ordinary shares of US$0.50 each.


These shares were disposed of in connection with some of the Company's employee
share schemes.


Following this transaction the Trust held a total of 6,243,463 unallocated
Standard Chartered PLC ordinary shares of US$0.50 each.


The following directors together with all employees are potential beneficiaries
of the Trust and as a result of this transaction there has been a change in the
number of shares they are interested in, however with the exception of Kai
Nargolwala who was issued with 594,367 shares following the exercise of an
Executive Share Option (full details of this exercise were given in the
announcement released on 10 April 2006 RNS announcement 2959B) the following
directors were not connected with the transaction detailed above:


Bryan Sanderson, Mervyn Davies, Mike DeNoma, Richard Meddings and Peter Sands.


Terry Skippen
Assistant Group Secretary


19 May 2006


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