Standard Chartered PLC — Delisting Announcement 2020

Jul 22, 2020

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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)

Termination of Indian Depository Receipts Programme

This announcement is made pursuant to Rule 13.10B of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Please refer to the attached announcement which was filed by Standard Chartered PLC with the London Stock Exchange on 22 July 2020 in relation to the completion of the termination of its Indian Depository Receipts ("IDRs") programme and the delisting of the IDRs from BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, in India.

By Order of the Board

Amanda Mellor

Group Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 22 July 2020

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; 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 and Jasmine Mary Whitbread

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Standard Chartered PLC

Completion of Delisting of Indian Depository Receipts

22 July 2020

Standard Chartered PLC (the Group) announced on 9 March 2020 that it intended to terminate its Indian Depository Receipt (IDR) programme. The Group has now completed the termination of the IDR programme, and accordingly the IDRs have been delisted from BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, in India.

As at 19 June 2020, there were around 7.5 million IDRs outstanding from the original 240 million IDRs that were issued in 2010. The approximately 750,000 underlying Group ordinary shares that these IDRs represented were sold on the London Stock Exchange on 22 June 2020 and the net sale proceeds distributed to the relevant IDR holders.

Enquiries to:

Mark Stride, Head of Investor Relations +44 (0) 20 7885 8596
Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations +44 (0) 20 7885 2434