Standard Chartered repurchases £9.4m in shares on December 18

Standard Chartered PLC confirmed the repurchase of 535,961 ordinary shares on December 18, 2025, with an aggregate price paid of £9,456,040.32. These buybacks occurred across various exchanges, including the London Stock Exchange, CBOE BXE, and CBOE CXE. The repurchases were executed at a volume-weighted average price range from £17.515 to £17.78 per share.

The company's disclosure highlights four separate repurchase events between December 15 and December 18, 2025, where shares were bought back but not yet cancelled. The total number of shares repurchased across these four days amounts to 2,161,446, representing 0.0953% of the existing number of issued shares before the relevant events. The directors intend to cancel the shares purchased pursuant to an authority granted by a special resolution on May 8, 2025.

As of December 18, 2025, the closing balance of issued shares (excluding treasury shares) remained at 2,268,332,142, with no treasury shares held. The total number of securities purchased since the special resolution passed on May 8, 2025, is 93,811,670, representing 3.9687% of the shares in issue at that time.