Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-034819
Chunk: 102

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 424B5
Chunk 102
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 is scheduled to settle after the Suspension Date will be rejected by DTC and will not be settled through DTC. Moreover, the Securities may cease to be admitted to Euronext Dublin’s Official List and to be traded on the GEM (the exchange-regulated market of Euronext Dublin) after the Suspension Date.

The procedures described in this section are subject to change to reflect changes in DTC’s practices, and we may make changes to the
procedures described in this section to the extent reasonably necessary, in our opinion, to reflect such changes in DTC’s practices.

Settlement Procedure

On the Suspension Date, we will deliver an Automatic Conversion Settlement Request Notice. The “Automatic Conversion
Settlement Request Notice” will be the written notice to the trustee and the paying agent directly and to the securityholders via DTC (or, if the Securities are held in definitive form, to the securityholders at their addresses shown on the
register for the Securities) (i) requesting that the securityholders complete an Automatic Conversion Settlement Notice and (ii) specifying (a) the Notice Cut-off Date and (b) the Final
Cancellation Date.

The securityholders (or the custodian, nominee, broker or other representative thereof) will not receive delivery of
the relevant Conversion Shares or the Conversion Shares Offer Consideration, as applicable, unless such securityholders (or the custodian, nominee, broker or other representative thereof) deliver the applicable Automatic Conversion Settlement Notice
to the Conversion Shares Depository on or before the Notice Cut-off Date; provided that, if such delivery is made after the end of normal business hours at the specified office of the Conversion Shares
Depository, such delivery will be deemed for all purposes to have been made or given on the next following business day.

The
“Automatic Conversion Settlement Notice” will be a written notice to be delivered by a securityholder (or custodian, broker, nominee or other representative thereof) to the Conversion Shares Depository (or to the relevant recipient of the
Conversion Shares in accordance with the terms of the Securities), with a copy to the trustee and the paying agent, no earlier than the Suspension Date, containing the following information: (i) the name of the securityholder (or custodian,
broker, nominee or other representative thereof), (ii) the Tradable Amount held by such securityholder (or custodian, broker, nominee or other representative thereof) on the date of such notice, (iii) the name to be entered in our share
register, (iv