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Additional Notes:

The value shown represents our current indicative daily mark which is the mid-price of the marked-to-market product (the “DM”) (including as relevant, any underlying or related transactions or securities) as at the date shown and at the close of business in London or for locally traded products at the close of business in that trading centre. The value is based on the notional/nominal amount of the product rather than on a per unit basis. This DM excludes amounts for profits, credit reserves, hedging, funding, liquidity, collateral or any other costs or adjustments. In addition, specifically in the case of Notes issued by SCB, this DM does not take account of our replacement costs for funding and liquidity. Such costs may be material to the transaction.

The DM was determined by using our standard methodology for valuing financial instruments of this kind or sourced from third parties. The valuation methodology may involve models, empirical data and assumptions. Financial Instruments without optionality (e.g. FX forwards, NDF, IRS, CCS) are in general priced from zero coupon discounting curves derived from screen quotations, while financial instruments with optionality or path dependency would use the bank’s more complex proprietary models in most cases. Such models may incorporate additional valuation inputs (such as volatility curves) which may be inferred from more liquid exchange-traded instruments or from internal assessments.  The amount of premium paid is assessed at the present value at the time the premium is exchanged, which may be the spot date of the transaction or some future date (such as the expiration date of an option) as agreed to between us and the counterparty. All values used to: i) directly mark a product or ii) mark a product as an input to the model are deemed to be at mid-market and are based on our view of the market at that particular time.

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