Standard Chartered Advances Buy-back With Fresh Share Repurchase and Planned Cancellation

Standard Chartered ( (GB:STAN) ) has provided an update.

Standard Chartered PLC has continued its previously announced share buy-back programme, repurchasing 931,778 ordinary shares on 18 March 2026 through J.P. Morgan Securities at a volume-weighted average price of 1,635.9784 pence. The trades were executed across the London Stock Exchange and CBOE’s BXE and CXE platforms within predefined parameters and regulatory requirements.

Following these latest purchases, the bank has deployed more than US$271 million on the buy-back and plans to cancel the repurchased shares, reducing its share count to 2,240,831,964. The cancellation will lower the total number of voting rights and is expected to enhance capital return to shareholders and support earnings per share, underlining management’s continued focus on capital efficiency and shareholder value.

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Standard Chartered PLC is a UK-incorporated international banking group headquartered in London. The bank focuses on corporate, institutional, commercial and retail banking, with a particular emphasis on markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Its shares are listed in Hong Kong, where it remains an active blue-chip constituent of the financial sector.

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