Standard Chartered PLC — Capital/Financing Update 2009

Nov 6, 2009

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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.$27,500,000,000

Debt Issuance Programme (the "Programme")

Joint Arrangers

J.P. Morgan Cazenove

Standard Chartered Bank

Dealers

BofA Merrill Lynch

Deutsche Bank

Goldman Sachs International

J.P. Morgan Cazenove

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 2009 and such

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listing and permission to deal in the Programme is expected to become effective on or about 10 November 2009.

5 November 2009

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

Non-Executive Chairman:
John Wilfred Peace

Executive Directors:
Peter Alexander Sands; Stefano Paolo Bertamini; Gareth Richard Bullock; Richard Henry Meddings and Alun Michael Guest Rees.

Independent Non-Executive Directors:
James Frederick Trevor Dundas; Valerie Frances Gooding, CBE; Rudolph Harold Peter Markham; Ruth Markland; 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; Fong Julian Loong Choon and Tan Siew Boi

Non-Executive Directors:
Jaspal Singh Bindra; Tsang King Suen Katherine; Stefano Paolo Bertamini; Olga Louise Zoutendijk; Kwok Ping Luen Raymond; Ma Xuezheng; Norman Lyle and Chan Wing Kin.

*Independent Non-Executive Directors

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