Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8349W

Standard Chartered PLC

22 August 2022

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

22 August 2022

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 1 August 2022 (the "Programme").

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:	22 August 2022
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,380,271
Lowest price paid per share:	582.4000 pence
Highest price paid per share:	594.8000 pence
Weighted average price paid per share:	589.9250 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 2,948,620,396 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 737,155,099 .

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 1 August 2022.

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/8349W_1-2022-8-22.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	[phone]
Shaun Gamble, Director, Group Media Relations	[phone]

 

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