Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6295I

Standard Chartered PLC

09 August 2019

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

9 August 2019

Transaction in own shares

Standard Chartered PLC ("SC") announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange through Merrill Lynch International.

Ordinary Shares:

Date of purchase:	9 August 2019
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	720,000
Lowest price per share:	624.4000
Highest price per share:	629.6000
Trading venue:	XLON
Weighted average price per day per trading venue:	627.0737

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the purchase of these shares, SC will have 3,216,838,148 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total voting rights in SC will be 804,209,537. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, SC under the FCA's Disclosure Guidelines and Transparency Rules.

SC holds no shares in Treasury.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/6295I_1-2019-8-9.pdf

This announcement will also be available on SC's website at: https://www.sc.com/en/investors/stock-exchange-announcements/ 

Enquiries to:

Mark Stride, Head of Investor Relations                [phone]

Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations [phone]

 

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