Directors' interests

Standard Chartered PLC
29 March 2006

Standard Chartered PLC


1995 Employee Share Ownership Plan Trust (the 'Trust')

This is to advise you that Bedell Cristin Trustees Limited, the Trustee of the
Company's employee benefit trust used in connection with some of he Company's
employee share schemes has advised under a notification dated 28 March 2006 that
on that date they disposed of a total of 647,149 Standard Chartered PLC ordinary
shares of US$0.50 each.

These shares were disposed of in connection with some of the Company's employee
share schemes.

Following this transaction the Trust held a total of 8,823,786 unallocated
Standard Chartered PLC ordinary shares of US$0.50 each.

The following directors together with all employees are potential beneficiaries
of the Trust and as a result of this transaction there has been a change in the
number of shares they are interested in, however the directors were not
connected with the transaction detailed above:

Bryan Sanderson, Mervyn Davies, Mike DeNoma, Richard Meddings, Kai Nargolwala
and Peter Sands


Charles B Brown
Group Company Secretary


29 March 2006


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