Standard Chartered PLC — Share Issue/Capital Change 2013

Apr 29, 2013

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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)

29 April 2013

Two-way Fungibility of Indian Depository Receipts

Standard Chartered PLC (the "Company") announces the implementation of a partial two-way fungibility programme enabling the redemption of Indian Depository Receipts ("IDRs") issued by the Company into ordinary shares of the Company ("Shares") and the conversion of Shares into IDRs (the "Fungibility Programme").

Full details of the Fungibility Programme are available at http://investors.standardchartered.com/en/

Persons may only participate in the Fungibility Programme in circumstances where such participation does not give rise to any requirement on the part of the Company, Standard Chartered Bank, The Bank of New York Mellon or Karvy Computershare Private Limited in any jurisdiction to comply with any filing or other requirement or to pay any fees or expenses. US Persons (within the meaning of Regulation S under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended) are not eligible to participate in the Fungibility Programme.

The Shares to be released on redemption of IDRs will be registered on the UK share register and can only be traded on the London Stock Exchange. If a former IDR holder wishes to trade the Shares in Hong Kong, he or she must arrange for the Shares to be transferred from the UK share register to the Hong Kong branch register. Similarly, if a shareholder holding his or her Shares on the Hong Kong branch register wishes to convert those Shares into IDRs, he or she must first arrange for the Shares to be transferred from the Hong Kong branch register to the UK share register.

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 Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; 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