Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4348Y

Standard Chartered PLC

08 May 2019

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

8 May 2019

Transaction in own shares

Standard Chartered PLC ("SC") announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange through J.P. Morgan Securities plc.

Ordinary Shares:

Date of purchase:	8 May 2019
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,230,000
Lowest price per share:	682.2000
Highest price per share:	698.4000
Trading venue:	XLON
Weighted average price per day per trading venue:	688.0764

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the purchase of these shares, SC will have 3,306,877,851 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total voting rights in SC will be 826,719,462. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, SC under the FCA's Disclosure Guidelines and Transparency Rules.

SC holds no shares in Treasury.

This issued share capital figure reflects a difference of 82,374 ordinary shares arising from employee share scheme exercises and which, due to an administration error was not factored into the announcement made on 7 May 2019.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/4348Y_1-2019-5-8.pdf

This announcement will also be available on SC's website at: https://www.sc.com/en/investors/stock-exchange-announcements/ 

Enquiries to:

Mark Stride, Head of Investor Relations                [phone]

Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations                  [phone]

 

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