Standard Chartered PLC — Capital/Financing Update 2011

Nov 11, 2011

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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.$42,500,000,000

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

Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

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 to Professional Investors only as described in the Prospectus dated 11 November 2011 and such listing and permission to deal in the Programme is expected to become effective on or about 16 November 2011.

11 November 2011

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

Non-Executive Chairman:
Sir John Wilfred Peace

Executive Directors:
Peter Alexander Sands; Stefano Paolo Bertamini; Jaspal Singh Bindra; Richard Henry Meddings and Alun Michael Guest Rees.

Independent Non-Executive Directors:
Richard Delbridge; James Frederick Trevor Dundas; Valerie Frances Gooding, CBE; Dr Han Seung-soo KBE; Simon Jonathan Lowth; 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; Viswanathan Shankar; 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:

Chairperson:
Tsang King Suen Katherine

Executive Directors:
Hung Pi Cheng Benjamin; Saleem Razvi and Tan Siew Boi.

Non-Executive Directors:
Jaspal Singh Bindra; Fong Julian Loong Choon; Michael Thomas Pratt; Kwok Ping Luen Raymond; Ma Xuezheng; Norman Lyle and Chan Wing Kin.

*Independent Non-Executive Directors