13 May 2022 18:00
STANDARD CHARTERED PLC
13 May 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 J.P. Morgan Securities plc ("JPM Securities"), pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously outlined on 18 February 2022 (the "Programme").
Ordinary shares:
Date of purchase: | 13 May 2022 |
Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased: | 1,996,934 |
Lowest price paid per share: | 572.2000 pence |
Highest price paid per share: | 585.0000 pence |
Weighted average price paid per share: | 578.6487 pence |
All ordinary shares purchased today were bought back on the London Stock Exchange.
SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.
Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 2,973,164,397 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 743,291,099.
Any share purchases pursuant to the Programme 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/5194L_1-2022-5-13.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, Group Head, Investor Relations | +44 (0) 20 7885 5172 |
Shaun Gamble, Director, Group Media Relations | +44 (0) 20 7885 5934 |
Standard Chartered (STAN)