Standard Chartered PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2014

May 20, 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)

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

| 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: | | Standard Chartered Plc
GB0004082847 |
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): | | |
| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | | |
| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached | | |
| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments | | |
| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | | ☑ |
| Other (please specify): | | |
| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: | Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited
Fullerton Management Pte Ltd
Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. | |
| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): | Nortust Nominees Limited
Lynchwood Nominees Limited
Chase Nominees Limited | |
| 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: | 13 May 2014 | |
| 6. Date on which issuer notified: | 19 May 2014 | |

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1. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
   Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited
2. From 18% to 17%
   Fullerton Management Pte Ltd
3. From 18% to 17%
   Dover Investments Pte. Ltd.

4. From 18% to 17%

5. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
				Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ORD USD 0.50	438,346,486
(See (1) in Additional Information in Box 13)	109,586,621
(based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)	NIL	NIL	109,586,621
(based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)	NIL	17.75%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion Period	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion period	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights
NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL	NIL	Nominal	Delta
					NIL	NIL

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Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
109,586,621 (based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)	17.75%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
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Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (Indirect)- 438,346,486 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) =17.75% (See (1) in Additional Information in Box 13)
Fullerton Management Pte Ltd (Indirect)- 438,346,486 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) =17.75% (See (1) in Additional Information in Box 13)
Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. (Indirect through the nominees listed in Box 4) - 438,346,486 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)= 17.75%
Proxy Voting:
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10. Name of the proxy holder:	NIL
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	NIL
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	NIL
13. Additional information:	(1) The 438,346,486 shares are held by Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. (“Dover”) through the nominees listed in Box 4 as of 19 May 2014. Dover is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fullerton Management Pte Ltd (“FMPL”) which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (“Temasek”).
(2) Notification using shares in issue figure of
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2,468,369,348 (617,092,337 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) as at close of business on 13 May 2014.

ANNEX NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name (including legal form for legal entities)	Standard Chartered PLC
Contact address (registered office for legal entities)	1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD.
Phone number	020 7885 7154
Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)
B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
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Full name	Alex Raistrick
Contact address	Standard Chartered PLC
1 Basinghall Avenue,
London, EC2V 5DD
Phone number	020 7885 7154
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)	Group Corporate Secretariat

C: Additional information

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 Richard Henry Meddings; 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 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