Standard Chartered continues share buy-back, cancels 517,832 shares

Standard Chartered PLC (SC) announced on September 15, 2025, that it purchased 517,832 of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on September 12, 2025, from Goldman Sachs International. These transactions were executed under a share buy-back programme announced on July 31, 2025. The aggregate price paid for these shares amounted to £7,382,679.04, with a volume-weighted average price of 1,425.67 pence per share.

The repurchases were distributed across various trading venues: London Stock Exchange (362,483 shares at £1,425.70), CBOE BXE (51,783 shares at £1,425.41), and CBOE CXE (103,566 shares at £1,425.67). SC intends to cancel these purchased shares, which will result in 2,300,304,133 ordinary shares remaining in issue, representing the total voting rights.

The company further detailed that as of September 12, 2025, a total of 2,301,341,745 ordinary shares were in issue, following several repurchases and cancellations. Since the resolution granting the repurchase mandate on May 8, 2025, SC has repurchased 59,678,233 shares, representing 2.5247% of its issued shares at that time.