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Result of AGM

8th May 2025 14:32

RNS Number : 9406H
Standard Chartered PLC
08 May 2025
 

RESULT OF AGM

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Thursday 8 May 2025

 

Standard Chartered PLC (the 'Company') announces the result of voting on the resolutions at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on Thursday 8 May 2025, as set out in the Notice of AGM.

 

A poll was held on each of the resolutions and was passed by the required majority. Resolutions 1 to 21 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 22 to 27 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll were as follows:

 

Resolution

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

Votes Withheld

Total Votes

% of ISC voted

1. To receive the Company's annual report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2024 together with the reports of the directors and auditors.

1,959,045,814

99.99%

84,703

0.01%

5,720,263

1,959,130,517

82.67%

2. To declare a final dividend of US$0.28 per ordinary share for the year ended 31 December 2024.

1,964,462,328

99.99%

17,613

0.01%

370,839

1,964,479,941

82.89%

3. To approve the annual report on directors' remuneration contained in the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2024 as set out on pages 143 to 181 (excluding the directors' renumeration policy set out on pages 164 to 169) of the

2024 annual report and accounts.

1,941,855,272

98.87%

22,208,489

1.13%

787,019

1,964,063,761

82.87%

4. To approve the directors' remuneration policy contained in the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2024 as set out on pages 164 to 169 of the annual report and accounts.

1,607,844,267

81.86%

356,270,992

18.14%

735,521

1,964,115,259

82.88%

5. To elect Lincoln Leong as an independent non-executive director.

1,962,669,892

99.91%

1,675,442

0.09%

223,787

1,964,345,334

82.89%

6. To elect Maria Ramos as Group Chair.

1,948,129,123

99.17%

16,236,601

0.83%

270,446

1,964,365,724

82.89%

7. To re-elect Shirish Apte as an independent non-executive director.

1,948,345,622

99.20%

15,668,685

0.80%

213,598

1,964,014,307

82.87%

8. To re-elect Diego De Giorgi as an executive director.

1,960,577,884

99.82%

3,442,832

0.18%

210,409

1,964,020,716

82.87%

9. To re-elect Jackie Hunt as an independent non-executive director.

 

1,961,385,301

99.87%

2,531,779

0.13%

247,418

1,963,917,080

82.87%

10. To re-elect Diane Jurgens as an independent non-executive director.

1,962,321,469

99.90%

1,987,388

0.10%

244,249

1,964,308,857

82.88%

11. To re-elect Robin Lawther, CBE as an independent non-executive director.

1,961,548,116

99.86%

2,810,287

0.14%

211,506

1,964,358,403

82.89%

12. To re-elect Phil Rivett as an independent non-executive

director.

1,959,980,331

99.78%

4,343,257

0.22%

249,312

1,964,323,588

82.88%

13. To re-elect David Tang as an independent non-executive director.

1,961,338,159

99.85%

2,981,959

0.15%

254,520

1,964,320,118

82.88%

14. To re-elect Bill Winters as an

executive director.

1,949,593,174

99.76%

4,778,118

0.24%

10,254,336

1,954,371,292

82.46%

15. To re-elect Dr Linda Yueh, CBE as an independent non-executive director.

1,929,694,125

98.24%

34,614,478

1.76%

235,573

1,964,308,603

82.88%

16. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP (EY) as auditor to the Company from the end of the

AGM until the end of next year's AGM.

1,963,790,963

99.97%

609,896

0.03%

449,921

1,964,400,859

82.89%

17. To authorise the Audit Committee, acting for and on behalf of the Board, to set the

remuneration of the auditor.

1,962,926,490

99.92%

1,527,982

0.08%

396,209

1,964,454,472

82.89%

18. To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and incur political expenditure within the limits

prescribed in the resolution.

1,950,793,358

99.30%

13,727,993

0.70%

326,335

1,964,521,351

82.89%

19. To authorise the Board to allot

ordinary shares.

1,914,133,655

97.53%

48,418,644

2.47%

2,298,481

1,962,552,299

82.81%

20. To extend the authority to allot ordinary shares granted pursuant to resolution 19 by such number of shares repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to resolution 25.

1,925,579,894

98.16%

36,118,275

1.84%

3,152,611

1,961,698,169

82.77%

21. To authorise the Board to allot shares in relation to any issues by the Company of Equity Convertible Additional Tier 1 Securities.

1,948,556,573

99.20%

15,803,991

0.80%

490,216

1,964,360,564

82.89%

22. To authorise the Board to disapply pre-emption rights in relation to the authority granted pursuant to resolution 19.

 

1,948,363,872

99.33%

13,057,873

0.67%

3,429,035

1,961,421,745

82.76%

23. In addition to the authority granted pursuant to resolution 22, to authorise the Board to disapply pre-emption rights in relation to the authority granted pursuant to resolution 19 for the purposes of acquisitions and other capital investments.

1,946,264,559

99.22%

15,314,113

0.78%

3,272,108

1,961,578,672

82.77%

24. In addition to the authorities granted pursuant to resolutions 22 and 23, to authorise the Board to disapply pre-emption rights in relation to the authority granted, in respect of Equity Convertible Additional Tier 1 Securities, pursuant to resolution 21.

1,944,058,109

98.97%

20,225,983

1.03%

566,688

1,964,284,092

82.88%

25. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares.

1,959,598,133

99.80%

3,898,622

0.20%

1,354,025

1,963,496,755

82.85%

26. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own preference shares.

1,958,179,211

99.73%

5,317,461

0.27%

1,354,108

1,963,496,672

82.85%

27. To enable the Company to call a general meeting other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

1,904,839,539

96.97%

59,604,677

3.03%

406,564

1,964,444,216

82.89%

 

The full text of the resolutions, along with the explanatory notes, is contained in the Notice of AGM, which is available on the Company's website at www.sc.com/agm.

 

As at 10pm UK time on 6 May 2025 or, in respect of the Company's branch register of members in Hong Kong, 5am Hong Kong time on 7 May 2025, the number of issued ordinary shares of the Company (excluding any shares that had been bought back by the Company and were pending cancellation) was 2,362,544,157 (none of which was in treasury) which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against all resolutions. In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, on a poll every member had one vote for every share held. Votes withheld are not votes in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'for' or 'against' a resolution. Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Group Chair have been included in the 'for' total for resolutions 1 to 27. There was no share entitling the holder to attend and abstain from voting in favour of any of the resolutions as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules.

 

There were no restrictions on any shareholders casting votes on any of the resolutions proposed at the AGM, save for AGM resolution 19. As stated in the Notice of AGM, the executive directors, the Group Chair and their respective associates were required to abstain, and have abstained, from resolution 19 which affected a total of 3,293,008 voting rights. The scrutineer of the poll on all resolutions was Computershare Investor Services PLC, the Company's Share Registrar. All Directors attended the AGM.

 

Copies of resolutions put to shareholders at the AGM today will be submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority, and will shortly be available for inspection at the Financial Conduct Authority's National Storage Mechanism, which can be accessed at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

For further information, please contact: 

Shaun GambleExecutive Director, Group Media Relations1 Basinghall AvenueLondonEC2V 5DD +44 (0) 7766 443 662

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