RMB financial bond successfully issued in China

Standard Chartered Bank (China) Co., Ltd. ("Standard Chartered China") recently announced that with the approval from China Banking Regulatory Commission and the People’s Bank of China, Standard Chartered China has successfully issued a financial bond (hereafter “the bond”) of RMB 5 billion in the domestic inter-bank bond market. The fund raised from this issuance will be used exclusively to support the Bank’s lending to small and micro enterprises.