No Change Statement and Notice of Annual General Meeting Standard Bank Group Limited Registration No. 1969/017128/06 Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa JSE share code: SBK ISIN: ZAE000109815 NSX share code: SNB NSX share code: SNB ZAE000109815 (“Standard Bank Group” or “the Group”) No Change Statement and Notice of Annual General Meeting 1. No Change Statement Shareholders of the Standard Bank Group (“shareholders”) are advised that the Group’s Governance and Remuneration Report, which includes the notice of Annual General Meeting and proxy form, will be distributed to shareholders today, Friday, 21 April 2017. The consolidated audited Annual Financial Statements of the Group for the year ended 31 December 2016, on which KPMG Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. expressed an unmodified opinion, contain no modifications to the audited results for the year ended 31 December 2016 which were released on the Stock Exchange News Service of the JSE Limited on Thursday, 2 March 2017. An electronic version of the Group’s Annual Integrated Report, the Governance and Remuneration Report, the Risk and Capital Management Report and the full audited Annual Financial Statements will be made available on the investor relations website of Standard Bank Group on Friday, 21 April 2017 during the course of the morning. 2. Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of shareholders will be held in the HP de Villiers Auditorium, Ground Floor, Standard Bank Centre, 6 Simmonds Street, Johannesburg on Friday, 26 May 2017 at 09:00 to transact the business stated in the notice of the Annual General Meeting, which is issued together with the Governance and Remuneration Report. The forms of proxy should be lodged with the Transfer Secretaries, Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited, by no later than 09:00 on Wednesday, 24 May 2017. The record date for shareholders to participate in and vote at the Annual General Meeting is Friday, 19 May 2017. Accordingly, the last day to trade to participate in and vote at the Annual General Meeting is Tuesday, 16 May 2017. Johannesburg 21 April 2017 Lead sponsor The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited Independent Sponsor Deutsche Securities (SA) Proprietary Limited Namibian sponsor Simonis Storm Securities (Proprietary) Limited Date: 21/04/2017 08:00:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.