Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-039401
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 424B5
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 series arising therefrom will be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred; providedthat no such waiver will extend to any subsequent or other event of default or default or impair any right consequent thereon. Limitation on Remedies and Suits No remedy against us other than as specifically provided by the relevant indenture will be available to the trustee or the holders of debt securities whether for the recovery of amounts owing in respect of such debt securities or under the relevant indenture or in respect of any breach by us of any obligation, condition or provision under the relevant indenture or such debt securities or otherwise. No holder of debt securities will be entitled to proceed directly against us, except as described below. Before a holder of any debt securities may bypass the trustee and bring its own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce its rights or protect its interests relating to any debt securities, the following must occur:

| • |     | The holder must give the trustee written notice that a default or an event of default has occurred and remains 
 uncured.                                                                                                       |

| • |     | The holders of not less than a majority in outstanding principal amount (or, in the case of an index- linked debt                                                                                                                                       
 security, the face amount) of the debt securities of the relevant series must make a written request that the trustee take action because of the event of default, and the holder must offer indemnity satisfactory to the trustee against the cost and 
 other liabilities of taking that action.                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

| • |     | The trustee must not have taken action for 60 days after receipt of the above notice and offer of security or 
 indemnity, and the trustee must not have received an inconsistent direction from the majority in              |

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| principal amount (or, in the case of an index-linked debt security, the face amount) of all outstanding debt securities of the relevant series during that period. |

Notwithstanding any other provision of the indentures or debt securities, the right of any holder of debt securities to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on), or interest or missed payments on, such debt securities on or after the due dates thereof and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, will not be impaired or affected without the consent of such holder. Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets We may, without the consent of the holders of any of the debt securities, consolidate or amalgamate with, or merge into, any corporation