Standard Chartered continues share buy-back program, purchases 517,115 shares

Standard Chartered PLC announced on September 22, 2025, that it purchased 517,115 of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each from Goldman Sachs International on September 19, 2025. This action is part of the share buy-back program initially announced on July 31, 2025. The lowest price paid per share was 1,417.00 pence, while the highest was 1,437.00 pence, resulting in a volume-weighted average price of 1,428.68 pence.

The purchases were conducted across multiple trading venues. On the London Stock Exchange, 361,981 shares were bought at a volume-weighted average price of 1,428.91 pence. CBOE BXE saw the purchase of 51,711 shares at 1,428.08 pence, and CBOE CXE accounted for 103,423 shares at 1,428.16 pence.

Following these transactions, Standard Chartered has applied an aggregate of $332,828,601.91 to share purchases under the buy-back program. The company intends to cancel all purchased shares, which will reduce the total number of ordinary shares in issue to 2,297,728,711, maintaining the same number of voting rights.