Standard Chartered PLC — Share Issue/Capital Change 2012

Dec 11, 2012

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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)

Standard Chartered PLC

11 December 2012

Application has been made to The UK Listing Authority and The London Stock Exchange for a block listing of 12,000,000 Ordinary shares of US$0.50 to trade on The London Stock Exchange and to be admitted to The Official List. The shares shall rank pari passu with the existing issued shares of the Company.

This is split as follows:

5,000,000 for the 2006 Restricted Share Scheme

4,000,000 for the 2011 Standard Chartered Share Plan

3,000,000 for the 2004 International Sharesave Scheme

The shares are expected to be admitted to The Official List and to trading on The London Stock Exchange on 14 December 2012.

Contact name for Enquiries

Lee Davis, Assistant Group Secretary

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 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 Richard Delbridge; Mr James Frederick Trevor Dundas; Mrs Margaret Ewing; Ms Valerie Frances Gooding, CBE; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth; Mr Rudolph Harold Peter Markham (Senior Independent Director); Ms Ruth Markland; Mr John Gregor Hugh Paynter; Mr Paul David Skinner; Mr Oliver Henry James Stocken and Dr Lars Henrik Thunell