Standard Chartered PLC — Share Issue/Capital Change 2016

Apr 5, 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)

Standard Chartered PLC ("the Company")

Application has been made to The UK Listing Authority and The London Stock Exchange for a block listing of 8,500,000 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.

The block listing is as follows:

8,500,000 for the 2011 Standard Chartered Share Plan

The shares are expected to be admitted to The Official List and to trading on The London Stock Exchange on 6 April 2016.

Contact name for Enquiries

Alex Raistrick, Company Secretarial Assistant

020 7885 7154

1 April 2016

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

Chairman:

Sir John Wilfred Peace

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Executive Directors:
Mr William Thomas Winters, CBE; Mr Andrew Nigel Halford and Mr Alun Michael Guest Rees (stepping down on 30 April 2016)

Independent Non-Executive Directors:
Mr Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; Mr David Philbrick Conner; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Mrs Christine Mary Hodgson; Ms Gay Huey Evans, OBE; Mr Naguib Kheraj (Senior Independent Director); Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth and Ms Jasmine Mary Whitbread