Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-039401
Chunk: 31

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 31
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ee (in consultation with us) as the replacement                                     
 for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate notes at such time and 
 (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

| “Corresponding Tenor” with respect to a Benchmark Replacement means a tenor (including overnight) having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustments) as the applicable tenor for the 
 then-current Benchmark.                                                                                                                                                                                        |

| “Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“NY Federal Reserve”), or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve and/or 
 the NY Federal Reserve or any successor thereto.                                                                                                                                                        |

| Benchmark Replacement Adjustment | “Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by us (in consultation, to the extent practicable, with the calculation agent) or our designee (in consultation with us) 
 as of the Benchmark Replacement Date:                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

| (1) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been (i) selected or recommended 
 by the Relevant                                                                                                         |

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| Governmental Body or (ii) determined by us (in consultation, to the extent practicable, with the calculation agent) or our designee (in consultation with us) in accordance with the method      
 for calculating or determining such spread adjustment that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body, in each case for the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement; |

| (2) if the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is equivalent to the ISDA Fallback Rate, then the ISDA Fallback Adjustment; |

| (3) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by us (in consultation, to the extent practicable, with the calculation agent) or our designee (in consultation with                               
 us) giving due consideration to industry- accepted spread adjustments (if any), or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement 
 for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate notes at such time.                                                                                                                                                                                           |

| “Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment. |

| Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes | In connection with