Standard Chartered PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2014

Mar 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 | | | Yes |
| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached | | | n/a |
| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments | | | n/a |
| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | | | n/a |
| Other (please specify): | | | n/a |
| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: | UBS Investment Bank | | |
| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): | UBS AG London Branch | | |
| 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: | 17 March 2014 | | |

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1. Date on which issuer notified: 18 March 2014

2. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: Below Notifiable Threshold

3. 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 | | | | |
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| | Number of Shares | Number of Voting Rights | Number of shares | Number of voting rights | | % of voting rights | |
| | | | | Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect |
| GB0004082847 | 99,653,953 | 24,913,488 | Below Notifiable Threshold | Below Notifiable Threshold | Below Notifiable Threshold | Below Notifiable Threshold | Below Notifiable Threshold |

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
-	-	-	-	-

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
-	-	-	-	-	Nominal	Delta
					-	-

Total (A+B+C)

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Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
Below Notifiable Threshold	Below Notifiable Threshold
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
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Proxy Voting:
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10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
13. Additional information:
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14. Contact name:
15. Contact telephone number:

ANNEX NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation

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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 Stefano Paolo Bertamini; 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; Mr James Frederick Trevor Dundas; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Mrs Christine Mary Hodgson; Mr Naguib Kheraj; Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth; Mr Rudolph Harold Peter Markham; 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