Standard Chartered PLC announced the appointment of Mr. Tanate Phutrakul (aged 61) as an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from July 1, 2026. Tanate will join the Audit and Board Risk Committees from the same date. Tanate is a highly experienced international banker and former Group Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Board of ING Group, a company listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange.

He brings deep expertise in financial strategy, capital management, operating within complex regulatory environments and managing large-scale banking transformation programmes. Tanate has a good understanding of, and affiliation to, the Group's footprint particularly those markets within Asia. Tanate joined ING in 1998 as Managing Director of ING Barings Securities Thailand.

From 2003 until 2008 he served in successive roles as Head of Wholesale Banking and Chief Financial Officer of TMB Bank in Thailand. He returned to ING in 2008 and went on to serve as Chief Financial Officer of ING's Operations and IT division, ING Retail Banking International and ING Belgium, before being appointed as the Group Chief Financial Officer of ING Group and member of their Executive Board in 2019, a role he held for seven years before retiring from ING Group in April 2026 after 24 years.