Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7115T

Standard Chartered PLC

26 March 2021

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

26 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:	26 March 2021
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,895,354
Lowest price paid per share:	490.6000 pence
Highest price paid per share:	502.2000 pence
Weighted average price paid per share:	498.5734 pence

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	497.9642	1,099,965	490.7000	502.2000
Turquoise	499.5727	142,389	490.8000	502.2000
Chi-X (CXE)	499.0283	215,000	490.6000	502.0000
BATS (BXE)	499.5603	342,000	490.8000	502.0000
Aquis UK	499.5366	96,000	490.9000	502.0000

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 3,119,542,363 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total voting rights in SC will be 779,885,590. 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/7115T_1-2021-3-26.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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