Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7645D
Standard Chartered PLC
04 March 2022
 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

4 March 2022

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 detailed in the announcement of 18 February 2022.

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:

4 March 2022

Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:

2,918,541

Lowest price paid per share:

465.6000 pence

Highest price paid per share:

490.5000 pence

Weighted average price paid per share:

472.1114 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

472.0004

2,100,000

465.6000

490.5000

CHIX

472.4334

551,965

465.6000

490.0000

BATE

472.3191

266,576

465.7000

489.8000

 

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 3,053,829,400 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 763,457,350.

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 18 February 2022.

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/7645D_1-2022-3-4.pdf

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

Enquiries to:

Gregg J Powell, Head of Investor Relations    +44 (0) 20 7885 5172

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

 

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