Standard Chartered buys back over 570,000 shares

Standard Chartered PLC (SC) announced on December 3, 2025, that it purchased 570,655 of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each from Goldman Sachs International on December 2, 2025. This transaction is part of the share buy-back programme previously detailed in an announcement on July 31, 2025. The shares were acquired at prices ranging from 1,689.50 GB pence to 1,709.50 GB pence, with a volume-weighted average price of 1,699.71 GB pence.

The purchases were executed across multiple trading venues, with 399,459 shares bought on the London Stock Exchange at an average price of 1,699.89 GB pence, 57,065 shares on CBOE BXE at 1,699.14 GB pence, and 114,131 shares on CBOE CXE at 1,699.37 GB pence. As of the close of business on the trading day preceding the announcement, SC had spent an aggregate of US$830,492,334.83 on share purchases under the buy-back scheme.

Standard Chartered intends to cancel the purchased shares. Following the cancellation, the total number of ordinary shares in issue will be 2,272,879,491, which will also represent the total number of voting rights in SC. This share buy-back activity adheres to pre-set parameters and regulatory requirements as detailed in SC's earlier July 31, 2025 announcement.