Standard Chartered Regulatory News (STAN)

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:

Standard Chartered PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

Change to the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules

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3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation:

Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited

Fullerton Management Pte Ltd

Dover Investments Pte. Ltd.

4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):

Nortrust Nominees Limited

Lynchwood Nominees Limited

Chase Nominees Limited

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached:

26 November 2015

6. Date on which issuer notified:

30 November 2015

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached:

No change

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

ORD USD 0.50

438,346,484

(See (1) in Additional Information in Box 13)

109,586,621

(based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)

NIL

NIL

100,537,769

(based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)

NIL

15.77%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate

Exercise/Conversion Period

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

Rights to recall lent shares

30 December 2015

Any time up to 30 December 2015

9,048,852

(based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)

1.42%

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise/Conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

NIL

NIL

NIL

NIL

NIL

Nominal

Delta

NIL

NIL

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

109,586,621 (based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)

17.19%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (Indirect)- 438,346,484 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) =17.19% (See Additional Information in Box 13)

Fullerton Management Pte Ltd (Indirect)- 438,346,484 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) =17.19% (See Additional Information in Box 13)

Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. (Indirect through the nominees listed in Box 4) - 438,346,484 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)= 17.19%

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

NIL

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

NIL

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights:

NIL

13. Additional information:

(1) The 402,151,076 shares are held by Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. ("Dover") through the nominees listed in Box 4 as of 30 November 2015. Dover is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fullerton Management Pte Ltd ("FMPL") which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited ("Temasek").

(2) Dover has the right to recall 36,195,408 lent shares under a stock lending agreement (see Box 8B).

(3) Notification using shares in issue figure of 2,549,479,999 (637,369,999 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) as at close of business on 6 November 2015.

Annex Notification Of Major Interests In Shares

A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation

Full name (including legal form for legal entities)

Standard Chartered PLC

Contact address (registered office for legal entities)

1 Basinghall Avenue,London, EC2V 5DD.

Phone number

020 7885 7456

Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable

Full name

Lee Davis

Contact address

Standard Chartered PLC

1 Basinghall Avenue,London, EC2V 5DD

Phone number

020 7885 7456

Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)

Group Corporate Secretariat

C: Additional information