Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001089113-25-000052
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form: 6-K
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 results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied in any forward-looking statement in this Form 6-K is available in our Annual Report and Accounts for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2024 (the ‘Annual Report and Accounts 2024’) , which was filed with the SEC on Form 20-F on 20 February 2025 . This Form 6-K contains a number of images, graphics, text boxes and credentials which aim to give a high-level overview of certain elements of our disclosures and to improve accessibility for readers. These images, graphics, text boxes and credentials are designed to be read within the context of this Form 6-K as a whole.

Certain defined terms Unless the context requires otherwise, ‘HSBC Holdings’ means HSBC Holdings plc and ‘HSBC’, the ‘Group’, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refer to HSBC Holdings together with its subsidiary undertakings. Within this document the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China is referred to as ‘Hong Kong’. When used in the terms ‘shareholders’ equity’ and ‘total shareholders’ equity’, ‘shareholders’ means holders of HSBC Holdings ordinary shares and those preference shares and capital securities issued by HSBC Holdings classified as equity. The abbreviations ‘$m’, ‘$bn’ and ‘$tn’ represent millions, billions (thousands of millions) and trillions of US dollars, respectively.

| HSBC Holdings plc Interim Report 2025 on Form 6-K |
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| Overview |     | Interim management report |     | Interim condensed consolidatedfinancial statements |     | Additional information |

Highlights Financial performance in 1H25 – Profit before tax decreased by $5.7bn to $15.8bn compared with 1H24, primarily due to the recognition of dilution and impairment losses of $2.1bn related to our associate Bank of Communications Co., Limited (‘BoCom‘). In addition, there was an adverse impact from the non-recurrence of $3.6bn in net gains in 1H24 relating to the disposals of our banking business in Canada and our business in Argentina. Profit after tax of $12.4bn was $5.2bn or 30% lower compared with 1H24. – Constant currency profit before tax excluding notable items increased by $0.9bn to $18.9bn compared with 1H24, from a strong performance in Wealth in our IWP