Standard Chartered PLC — Director's Dealing 2014

Oct 9, 2014

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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 registered number 966425)

(Stock Code: 02888)

Grant of Share Options

This announcement is made pursuant to Rule 17.06A of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Standard Chartered PLC (the "Company") announces that on 8 October 2014, options (the "Options") to acquire 913 Ordinary shares of USD0.50 each in the capital of the Company (the "Shares") were granted to Jaspal Bindra, Executive Director of the Company under the Standard Chartered 2013 Sharesave Plan at the exercise price of £9.85.

The closing market price of the Shares on the London Stock Exchange on the date of grant (8 October 2014) was £11.12. Under the Standard Chartered 2013 Sharesave Plan, the Options may be exercised from 1 December 2017 for a period of six months.

By Order of the Board

Annemarie Durbin

Group Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 9 October 2014

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

Chairman:

Sir John Wilfred Peace

Executive Directors:

Mr Peter Alexander Sands; Mr Jaspal Singh Bindra; Mr Andrew Nigel Halford; Mr Alun Michael Guest Rees and Mr Viswanathan Shankar

Independent Non-Executive Directors:

Mr Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Mrs Christine Mary Hodgson; Mr Naguib Kheraj; Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth; Ms Ruth Markland (Senior Independent Director); Mr John Gregor Hugh Paynter; Mr Paul David Skinner, CBE; Mr Oliver Henry James Stocken, CBE and Dr Lars Henrik Thunell