Standard Chartered Regulatory News (STAN)

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

4 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:

Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased today according to each trading venue:

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 3,053,829,400 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 763,457,350.

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/7645D_1-2022-3-4.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 +44 (0) 20 7885 5172

Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations +44 (0) 20 7885 2434