Standard Chartered PLC — Capital/Financing Update 2008

Nov 6, 2008

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NOTICE OF LISTING ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONG KONG LIMITED

Standard Chartered PLC

(incorporated as a public limited company in England and Wales with registered number 966425)

Standard Chartered Bank

(incorporated with limited liability in England by Royal Charter with reference number ZC 18)

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

(incorporated with limited liability in Hong Kong: Number 875305)

Standard Chartered First Bank Korea Limited

(incorporated in the Republic of Korea with limited liability)

U.S.$20,000,000,000

Debt Issuance Programme (the "Programme")

Joint Arrangers

JPMorgan Cazenove

Standard Chartered Bank

Dealers

Banc of America Securities Limited

Deutsche Bank

Goldman Sachs International

JPMorgan Cazenove

Merrill Lynch International

Morgan Stanley

Standard Chartered Bank

UBS Investment Bank

Application has been made to The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited for the listing of the Programme and for the listing of, and permission to deal in the Notes to be issued under the Programme as described in the Prospectus dated 5 November 2008 and such listing and permission to deal in the Programme is expected to become effective on or about 11 November 2008.

5 November 2008

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As of the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered PLC comprises:

Chairman:
Evan Mervyn Davies, CBE

Executive Directors:
Peter Alexander Sands; Stefano Paolo Bertamini; Gareth Richard Bullock and Richard Henry Meddings

Independent Non-Executive Directors:
John Wilfred Peace; James Frederick Trevor Dundas; Valerie Frances Gooding, CBE; Rudolph Harold Peter Markham; Ruth Markland; Sunil Bharti Mittal; John Gregor Hugh Paynter; Paul David Skinner and Oliver Henry James Stocken.

As of the date of this announcement, the Court of Directors of Standard Chartered Bank comprises:

Chairman:
Peter Alexander Sands

Directors:
Jaspal Singh Bindra; Gareth Richard Bullock; Stefano Paolo Bertamini; Richard Henry Meddings; Timothy John Miller; and Alun Michael Guest Rees.

As of the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited comprises:

Chairman:
Sir CK Chow*

Executive Directors:
Hung Pi Cheng Benjamin and Fong Julian Loong Choon

Non-Executive Directors:
Jaspal Singh Bindra, Stefano Paolo Bertamini, Nicholas Robert Sallnow-Smith; Olga Louise Zoutendijk; Kwok Ping Luen Raymond; Ma Xuezheng; Norman Lyle; and Chan Wing Kin.

*Independent Non-Executive Directors

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