Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1760S

Standard Chartered PLC

12 March 2021

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

12 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:	12 March 2021
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,729,516
Lowest price paid per share:	482.8000 pence
Highest price paid per share:	496.0000 pence
Weighted average price paid per share:	490.4234 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	489.7546	978,824	482.9000	496.0000
Turquoise	491.1517	166,114	483.1000	495.7000
Chi-X (CXE)	490.8888	246,000	482.8000	495.9000
BATS (BXE)	491.7544	256,979	482.8000	495.7000
Aquis UK	491.3682	81,599	483.2000	495.9000

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 3,139,666,542 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total voting rights in SC will be 784,916,635. 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/1760S_1-2021-3-12.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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