Standard Chartered PLC — Delisting Announcement 2020

Mar 9, 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)

Notice of Intention to Terminate 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 has been filed by Standard Chartered PLC with the Indian Stock Exchanges today, providing notice of the intention to terminate its Indian Depository Receipts programme.

Please refer to the attached announcement which has been filed by the Company with the Indian Stock Exchanges today.

By Order of the Board

Amanda Mellor

Group Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 9 March 2020

As of 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:

Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; David Philbrick Conner; Byron Elmer Grote; Christine Mary Hodgson, CBE (Senior Independent Director); Gay Huey Evans, OBE; Naguib Kheraj (Deputy Chairman); Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; David Tang; Carlson Tong and Jasmine Mary Whitbread

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Standard Chartered

March 9, 2020

The General Manager
Department of Corporate Services
BSE Limited
Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers
Dalal Street
Mumbai 400 001

Dear Sir/Ma’am,

Sub: Termination of Indian Depository Receipts (the “IDRs”) programme (the “IDR Programme”) by Standard Chartered Plc (the “Company”)

This is with reference to Chapter VII of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, as amended, which governs the obligations of the entities which have issued IDRs.

We would like to inform you that in accordance with the Deposit Agreement dated May 8, 2010 entered into between the Company and Standard Chartered Bank, Mumbai (the “Domestic Depository”) and as amended from time to time (the “Deposit Agreement”) and the terms and conditions of the IDRs as disclosed in the Company’s Prospectus dated May 31, 2010 (the “IDR Terms”), the Company has now decided to terminate the IDR Programme and in due course to delist the outstanding IDRs from BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited.

The Company shall issue a formal termination notice to the Domestic Depository, in terms of the Deposit Agreement and the IDR Terms, and also inform the IDR holders of the detailed process of termination and the mechanism for participation by the IDR holders, in due course.

We request you to kindly take note of the above.

Yours sincerely,

For Standard Chartered PLC

Joan Medland
Authorised Signatory

Standard Chartered PLC
1 Basinghall Avenue
London EC2V 5DD
www.sc.com
Registered Office at 1 Basinghall Avenue London EC2V 5DD
Registered England 988425
Tel +44 (0)20 7885 8888
Here for good

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Standard Chartered

March 9, 2020

Listing Department
National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Exchange Plaza
Bandra Kurla Complex
Bandra (East)
Mumbai 400 051

Dear Sir/Ma’am,

Sub: Termination of Indian Depository Receipts (the “IDRs”) programme (the “IDR Programme”) by Standard Chartered Plc (the “Company”)

This is with reference to Chapter VII of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, as amended, which governs the obligations of the entities which have issued IDRs.

We would like to inform you that in accordance with the Deposit Agreement dated May 8, 2010 entered into between the Company and Standard Chartered Bank, Mumbai (the “Domestic Depository”) and as amended from time to time (the “Deposit Agreement”) and the terms and conditions of the IDRs as disclosed in the Company’s Prospectus dated May 31, 2010 (the “IDR Terms”), the Company has now decided to terminate the IDR Programme and in due course to delist the outstanding IDRs from BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited.

The Company shall issue a formal termination notice to the Domestic Depository, in terms of the Deposit Agreement and the IDR Terms, and also inform the IDR holders of the detailed process of termination and the mechanism for participation by the IDR holders, in due course.

We request you to kindly take note of the above.

Yours sincerely,

For Standard Chartered PLC

Joan Medland
Authorised Signatory

Standard Chartered PLC
1 Basinghall Avenue
London EC2V 5DD
www.sc.com
Registered Office at 1 Basinghall Avenue London EC2V 5DD
Registered England 988425
Tel +44 (0)20 7885 8888
Here for good