Directors' Interests

Standard Chartered PLC
03 August 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
2 August 2006 that between 1 July and 1 August 2006 it disposed of a total of
63,310 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 5,040,952 unallocated
Standard Chartered PLC ordinary shares of US$0.50 each.

The following directors of the Company 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 the directors
were not connected with the transaction detailed above:

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


Julie Bamford
Deputy Group Secretary


3 August 2006


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