Standard Chartered PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2015

Apr 2, 2015

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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
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:	BlackRock, Inc.
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	30th March 2015
6. Date on which issuer notified:	31st March 2015
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Total holding has gone above 5%Voting rights attached to shares holding has gone above 5%

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1. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

| 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 x | |
| | | | Direct | Direct xi | Indirect xii | Direct | Indirect |
| GB0004082847 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 31,022,233 | N/A | 5.02% |

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv	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 xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights xix, xx
CFD				8,351	Nominal	Delta
					0.00%	0.00%

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
31,030,584	5.02%

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1. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: XX

Proxy Voting:
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:	Lee Davis
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7885 7456

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; Ms Gay Huey Evans; Mr Naguib Kheraj; Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth; Ms Ruth Markland (Senior Independent Director); Mr Paul David Skinner, CBE; Dr Lars Henrik Thunell and Ms Jasmine Whitbread