Standard Chartered PLC — Capital/Financing Update 2017

Jan 18, 2017

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This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute an invitation or offer to acquire, purchase or subscribe for securities or an invitation to enter into an agreement to do any such thing, nor is it calculated to invite any offer to acquire, purchase or subscribe for any securities. This announcement is not an offer for securities for sale in Hong Kong or the United States or elsewhere. The Securities are not available for general subscription in Hong Kong or elsewhere.

This announcement does not constitute or form a part of any offer of securities for sale in the United States. The Securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act. No public offering of the Securities will be made in the United States.

NOTICE OF LISTING ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONG KONG LIMITED

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

渣打集團有限公司

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

(Stock Code: 02888)

U.S.$1,000,000,000 Fixed Rate Resetting Perpetual Subordinated Contingent Convertible Securities (Stock Code: 5348) (the "Securities")

Structuring Adviser

Standard Chartered Bank

Lead Managers

Standard Chartered Bank, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch and Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

Standard Chartered PLC has made an application to The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange") for the listing of and permission to deal in the Securities at an initial fixed rate of 7.750% as a debt issue to professional investors (as defined in Chapter 37 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) and to professional investors (as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) of Hong Kong) only, as described in the offering circular dated 12 January 2017. The listing of and permission to deal in the Securities is expected to become effective on 19 January 2017.

By Order of the Board

Elizabeth Lloyd, CBE

Group Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 18 January 2017

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

Chairman:
José María Viñals Iñiguez

Executive Directors:
William Thomas Winters and Andrew Nigel Halford

Independent Non-Executive Directors:
Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; David Philbrick Conner; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Christine Mary Hodgson; Gay Huey Evans, OBE; Naguib Kheraj (Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director) and Jasmine Mary Whitbread

For further information please contact:

Mark Stride
Head of Investor Relations
1 Basinghall Avenue
London
EC2V 5DD
020 7885 8596

Julie Gibson
Head of Media Relations
1 Basinghall Avenue
London
EC2V 5DD
020 7885 2434