Standard Chartered : Notification of Major Holdings

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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 limited liability)

(Registered Number: 966425)

(Stock Code: 02888)

TR-1: Standard Form for Notification of Major Holdings

1. Issuer Details
   ISIN GB0004082847
   Issuer Name
   STANDARD CHARTERED PLC
   UK or Non-UK Issuer
   UK
2. Reason for Notification

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

1. Details of person subject to the notification obligation Name
   Norges Bank
   City of registered office (if applicable) Oslo
   Country of registered office (if applicable) Norway
2. Details of the shareholder

Full name of shareholder(s) if different from the person(s) subject to the notification obligation, above

City of registered office (if applicable)

Country of registered office (if applicable)

5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached

29-Apr-2021

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1. Date on which Issuer notified
   04-May-2021
2. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation

	% of voting	% of voting rights	Total of both	Total number
	rights attached	through financial
.	in % (8.A +	of voting rights
to shares (total	instruments (total of
	8.B)	held in issuer
	of 8.A)	8.B 1 + 8.B 2)
Resulting situation
on the date on which	2.843930	0.000000	2.843930	22175790
threshold was
crossed or reached
Position of previous
notification (if	3.93	0.000000	3.93	30982444
applicable)

8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached

8A. Voting rights attached to shares

Class/Type of

Number of direct

Number of indirect

% of direct

% of indirect

shares ISIN

voting rights

voting rights

voting rights

voting rights

code(if possible)

(DTR5.1)

(DTR5.2.1)

(DTR5.1)

(DTR5.2.1)

GB0004082847

22175790

2.843930

Sub Total 8.A

22175790

2.843930%

8B1. Financial Instruments according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (a))

Number of voting rights that

% of

Type of financial

Expiration

Exercise/conversion

may be acquired if the

voting

instrument

date

period

instrument is

rights

exercised/converted

Sub Total 8.B1

8B2. Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (b))

Type of

Expiration

Exercise/conversion

Physical or cash

Number of

% of

financial

voting

date

period

settlement

voting rights

instrument

rights

Sub Total 8.B2

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9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation

1. Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuer.

		% of voting rights	% of voting rights	Total of both if it
Ultimate	Name of	if it equals or is	through financial	equals or is
controlled	higher than the	instruments if it equals	higher than the
controlling person
undertaking	notifiable	or is higher than the	notifiable
		threshold	notifiable threshold	threshold

10. In case of proxy voting Name of the proxy holder

The number and % of voting rights held

The date until which the voting rights will be held

11. Additional Information

Contact information: Louis Philpott

Group Corporate Secretariat 02078852055

1. Date of Completion 04-May-2021
2. Place Of Completion Oslo, Norway

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered PLC comprises:

Chairman:

José María Viñals Iñiguez

Executive Directors:

William Thomas Winters, CBE and Andrew Nigel Halford

Independent Non-Executive Directors:

David Philbrick Conner; Byron Elmer Grote; Christine Mary Hodgson, CBE (Senior Independent Director); Gay Huey Evans, OBE; Naguib Kheraj (Deputy Chairman); Maria da Conceicao das Neves Calha Ramos; Philip George Rivett; David Tang; Carlson Tong and Jasmine Mary Whitbread

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