Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-261738
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 424B5
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 not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the UK. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended (the “EUWA”); (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement the IDD, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA. Consequently, no key information document required by the Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the “UK PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.

Notice to Canadian Investors

No prospectus has been filed with any securities commission or similar regulatory authority in Canada in connection with the offer and sale of
the Notes. No securities commission or similar regulatory authority in Canada has reviewed or in any way passed upon this prospectus supplement or on the merits of the Notes and any representation to the contrary is an offense.

The Notes may be offered or sold only to purchasers purchasing, or deemed to be purchasing, as principal that are accredited investors (as
defined in National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions (“NI 45-106”) or subsection 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario)) that are also
permitted clients (as defined in National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations (“NI 31-103”))and that are not a person created or used solely to purchase or hold securities as an accredited investor as described in paragraph (m) of the definition of “accredited investor.” Any resale of the Notes must be made in
accordance with an exemption from, or