STANDARD CHARTERED PLC
9 September 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: |
9 September 2021 |
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased: |
1,424,000 |
Lowest price paid per share: |
442.2000 pence |
Highest price paid per share: |
448.3000 pence |
Weighted average price paid per share: |
444.8577 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 3,085,438,825 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 771,359,706.
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/3310L_1-2021-9-9.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