Standard Chartered PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2016

Nov 29, 2016

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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:	Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited (and/or acting for its affiliates) as discretionary investment manager on behalf of multiple portfolios
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:	23 November 2016
6. Date on which issuer notified:	25 November 2016

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1. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: $\mathrm{vi, vii}$

5%

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 (UK Listed)	181,331,221	150,507,899	181,850,221		151,014,899		4.599%
GB0004082847 (HK Listed)	9,752,556	5,485,341	9,752,556		5,485,341		0.167%

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
Rights to recall lent shares (UK listed line)			5,770,947	0.176%
Rights to recall lent shares (HK listed line)			1,883,640	0.057%

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
					Nominal	Delta

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Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
164,154,827	4.999%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: ^{xx)}
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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:	Lee Davis
15. Contact telephone number:	02078857456

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

Chairman:
Sir John Wilfred Peace (stepping down on 1 December 2016)

Executive Directors:
William Thomas Winters and Andrew Nigel Halford

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Independent Non-Executive Directors:

Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; David Philbrick Conner; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Christine Mary Hodgson; Gay Huey Evans, OBE; Naguib Kheraj (Senior Independent Director); José María Viñals Iñiguez (succeeding as Chairman on 1 December 2016) and Jasmine Mary Whitbread