Investor Trip

Standard Chartered PLC
27 October 2006


Standard Chartered PLC - Investor Trip


Standard Chartered PLC

27 October 2006


Standard Chartered PLC will be hosting an investor trip to its banking
operations in Hong Kong and Korea from 31 October to 3 November 2006.


The trip will cover:

31 October               Hong Kong

1 November               Group Consumer Banking

2 November               China, Taiwan and Korea

3 November               Korea


Presentation slides will be made available on Standard Chartered's website
(http://investors.standardchartered.com) each day from 8am UK time.


As is its normal practice, Standard Chartered will issue a pre-close trading
update on 12 December 2006. No comments on the Group's current trading will be
made during the investor trip.


POST TRIP BRIEFING


Peter Sands, Group Finance Director, will be hosting a post trip conference call
on Wednesday 8 November at 12pm UK time.


An audio dial-in to the briefing will be available by calling:


UK Participants [phone]

HK Participants [phone]


For further questions, please contact:


Stephen Atkinson

Head of Investor Relations

[phone]



Ruth Naderer

Head of Investor Relations, Asia Pacific

[phone]



Piotr Zajac

Senior Manager, Investor Relations

[phone]


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