Standard Chartered PLC — Capital/Financing Update 2021

Jan 14, 2021

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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.

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 limited liability)

(Registered Number: 966425)

(Stock Code: 02888)

U.S.$1,250,000,000 Fixed Rate Resetting Perpetual Subordinated Contingent Convertible Securities (Stock Code: 40518) (the "Securities")

Structuring Adviser

Standard Chartered Bank

Joint Lead Managers

BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Standard Chartered Bank and UBS Securities LLC

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 4.75% 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) only, as described in the offering circular dated 5 January 2021. The listing of and permission to deal in the Securities is expected to become effective on 15 January 2021.

For further information please contact:

Daniel Banks

Managing Director, Global Head, Debt Investor Relations

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1 Basinghall Avenue
London
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020 7885 6329

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

By Order of the Board
Amanda Mellor
Group Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 14 January 2021

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, CBE and Andrew Nigel Halford

Independent Non-Executive Directors:
David Philbrick Conner; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Christine Mary Hodgson, CBE (Senior Independent Director); Gay Huey Evans, OBE; Naguib Kheraj (Deputy Chairman); Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Philip George Rivett; David Tang; Carlson Tong; Jasmine Mary Whitbread; and Maria Ramos