Standard Chartered Regulatory News (STAN)

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

06 October 2023

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 Goldman Sachs International, pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously detailed in the announcement of 31 July 2023.

As of close of business London time on the trading day preceding the date of this announcement, SC had applied an aggregate of US$551,901,971.05 to share purchases pursuant to the share buy-back programme announced on 31 July 2023.

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 2,715,103,928 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 678,775,982.

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/0431P_1-2023-10-6.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

Shaun Gamble, Director, Group Media Relations: +44 (0) 20 7885 5934