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STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

渣打集團有限公司 (Incorporated as a public limited company in England and Wales with registered number 966425)

(Stock Code: 02888)

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

Standard Chartered PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

Change to the FCA’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited

Fullerton Management Pte Ltd

Dover Investments Pte. Ltd.

4. Full name of shareholder(s)

(if different from 3.):

Nortrust Nominees Limited

Lynchwood Nominees Limited

Chase Nominees Limited

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

26 November 2015

6. Date on which issuer notified: 30 November 2015

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

No change

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE

Situation previous to the triggering transaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number of Shares

Number of Voting Rights

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

% of voting rights

Direct Indirect Direct Indirect

ORD USD 0.50 438,346,484 (See (1) in Additional Information in Box 13)

109,586,621 (based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)

NIL NIL


NIL 15.77%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments


Type of financial instrument

Expiration date

Exercise/ Conversion Period

Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.

% of voting rights

Rights to recall lent shares

30 December 2015

Any time up to 30 December 2015


1.42%

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments


Type of financial instrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise/ Conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL

Nominal Delta

NIL NIL

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights


17.19%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (Indirect)- 438,346,484 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) =17.19% (See Additional Information in Box 13) Fullerton Management Pte Ltd (Indirect)- 438,346,484 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) =17.19% (See Additional Information in Box 13) Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. (Indirect through the nominees listed in Box 4) - 438,346,484 shares (109,586,621 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares)= 17.19%

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder: NIL

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

NIL

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

NIL

13. Additional information:

(1) The 402,151,076 shares are held by Dover Investments Pte. Ltd. (“Dover”) through the nominees listed in Box 4 as of 30 November 2015. Dover is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fullerton Management Pte Ltd (“FMPL”) which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (“Temasek”).

(2) Dover has the right to recall 36,195,408 lent shares under a stock lending agreement (see Box 8B).

(3) Notification using shares in issue figure of

2,549,479,999 (637,369,999 voting rights based on 1 voting right for every US$2.00 nominal value of shares) as at close of business on 6 November 2015.

ANNEX NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation

Full name (including legal form for legal entities) Standard Chartered PLC

Contact address (registered office for legal

entities)

1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD.

Phone number 020 7885 7456

Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons)

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable

Full name Lee Davis

Contact address Standard Chartered PLC 1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD

Phone number 020 7885 7456

Other useful information (e.g. functional

relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)

Group Corporate Secretariat

C: Additional information

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered PLC comprises: Chairman: Sir John Wilfred Peace Executive Directors: Mr William Thomas Winters; Mr Andrew Nigel Halford and Mr Alun Michael Guest Rees Independent Non-Executive Directors: Mr Om Prakash Bhatt; Dr Kurt Michael Campbell; Dr Louis Chi-Yan Cheung; Dr Byron Elmer Grote; Dr Han Seung-soo, KBE; Mrs Christine Mary Hodgson; Ms Gay Huey Evans; Mr Naguib Kheraj (Senior Independent Director); Mr Simon Jonathan Lowth; Ms Ruth Markland; Mr Paul David Skinner, CBE; Dr Lars Henrik Thunell and Ms Jasmine Whitbread

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