Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0964E

Standard Chartered PLC

08 March 2022

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

8 March 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 Merrill Lynch International ("BofA Securities"), pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously detailed in the announcement of 18 February 2022.

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:	8 March 2022
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:	2,945,590
Lowest price paid per share:	452.8000 pence
Highest price paid per share:	478.0000 pence
Weighted average price paid per share:	466.2304 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	465.2729	2,153,657	454.2000	478.0000
CHIX	469.3486	538,554	452.8000	478.0000
BATE	467.7416	253,379	455.4000	477.9000

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 3,048,140,999 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 762,035,249.

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 18 February 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/0964E_1-2022-3-8.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, Head of Investor Relations    [phone]

Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations    [phone]

 

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