Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7733Q
Standard Chartered PLC
01 March 2021
 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

1 March 2021

Transaction in own shares

Standard Chartered PLC ("SC") announces that today it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each from Merrill Lynch International ("BofA Securities"), pursuant to the share buy-back programme previously outlined on 25 February 2021 and detailed in the announcement of 26 February 2021.

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:

1 March 2021

Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:

1,517,128

Lowest price paid per share:

469.8000 pence

Highest price paid per share:

483.1000 pence

Weighted average price paid per share:

476.3932 pence

 

Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased today according to each trading venue:

Venue

Weighted average price paid per share (GB pence)

Aggregate number of shares purchased

Lowest price paid per share
(GB pence)

Highest price paid per share
(GB pence)

London Stock Exchange

476.2772

832,209

470.5000

482.9000

Turquoise

476.3951

133,000

469.8000

482.8000

Chi-X (CXE)

476.5582

207,000

469.8000

483.0000

BATS (BXE)

476.5872

281,243

469.8000

482.7000

Aquis UK

476.5123

63,676

469.8000

483.1000

 

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will hold no ordinary shares in treasury and will have 3,154,665,134 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total voting rights in SC will be 788,666,283. 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.

Any such share purchases will be effected in accordance with certain pre-set parameters and limits, and in accordance with applicable law and regulation as described in more detail in SC's announcement of 26 February 2021.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7733Q_1-2021-3-1.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  +44 (0) 20 7885 8596

Julie Gibson, Head of Media Relations  +44 (0) 20 7885 2434

 

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