Standard Chartered buys back shares for cancellation

Standard Chartered PLC executed a buy-back of 518,577 ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on September 17, 2025, from Goldman Sachs International. The shares were acquired at a volume-weighted average price of 1,414.89 GB pence, with prices ranging from 1,397.00 GB pence to 1,425.50 GB pence.

The purchases were made across multiple trading venues, including the London Stock Exchange (363,005 shares), CBOE BXE (51,857 shares), and CBOE CXE (103,715 shares). As of the close of business on the preceding trading day, Standard Chartered had allocated an aggregate of US$312,844,228.72 to share purchases through the buy-back initiative.

Standard Chartered plans to cancel the purchased shares, which will reduce the total number of ordinary shares in issue to 2,298,762,888. This will result in the same total number of voting rights.