Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9350S

Standard Chartered PLC

19 March 2021

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

19 March 2021

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 Merrill Lynch International ("BofA Securities"), pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously outlined on 25 February 2021 and detailed in the announcement of 26 February 2021.

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:	19 March 2021
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:	2,008,485
Lowest price paid per share:	483.6000pence
Highest price paid per share:	497.6000pence
Weighted average price paid per share:	491.5624pence

Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased today according to each trading venue:

Venue	Weighted average price paid per share (GB pence)	Aggregate number of shares purchased	Lowest price paid per share (GB pence)	Highest price paid per share (GB pence)
London Stock Exchange	491.8077	1,174,113	483.7000	497.6000
Turquoise	491.5938	185,000	483.6000	496.9000
Chi-X (CXE)	491.8531	255,000	483.6000	497.6000
BATS (BXE)	490.6173	393,208	483.6000	497.2000
Aquis UK	494.7277	1,164	492.9000	497.1000

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will hold no ordinary shares in treasury and will have 3,129,721,289 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total voting rights in SC will be 782,430,322. 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.

Any such share purchases 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 26 February 2021.

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/9350S_1-2021-3-19.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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