Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0994J
Standard Chartered PLC
18 August 2021
 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

18 August 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 J.P. Morgan Securities plc ("JPM Securities"), pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously outlined on 3 August 2021 and detailed in the announcement of 3 August 2021 (the "Programme").

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:

18 August 2021

Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:

1,231,531

Lowest price paid per share:

447.3000 pence

Highest price paid per share:

456.2000 pence

Weighted average price paid per share:

450.8804 pence

All ordinary shares purchased today were bought back on the London Stock Exchange.

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 3,105,299,986 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 776,324,996.

Any share purchases pursuant to the Programme 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 3 August 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/0994J_1-2021-8-18.pdf

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

Enquiries to:

Gregg J Powell, Group Head, Investor Relations:  +852 3843 2388

Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations:  +44 (0) 20 7885 2434

 

 

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