Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-117014
Chunk: 150

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 424B5
Chunk 150
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 |     | any other or different contingent capital events of default (as defined under “Contingent Capital Events of                                                                                                                        
 Default”), other categories of default or covenants applicable to any of the contingent capital securities, and the relevant terms if they are different from the terms in the applicable contingent capital securities indenture; |

| • |     | any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale and delivery of the contingent capital securities; |

| • |     | whether we will pay contingent capital additional amounts (as defined under “Additional Amounts”) on 
 the contingent capital securities;                                                                   |

| • |     | the record date for any payment of principal, interest or premium; |

| • |     | any listing of the contingent capital securities on a securities exchange; |

| • |     | whether holders of the contingent capital securities may exercise, claim or plead any right of set-off, compensation or retention in respect of any amount owed to them by us arising under, or in connection with, the contingent capital securities; |

| • |     | the names and duties of any co-trustees, depositaries, authenticating 
 agents, paying agents, transfer agents or registrars of any series;   |

| • |     | what we believe are any additional material U.S. federal and UK tax considerations; |

| • |     | provisions relating to the exercise of the UK bail-in power by the 
 relevant UK resolution authority; and                              |

| • |     | any other or different terms of the contingent capital securities. |

Form, Settlement and Clearance General. Unless the relevant prospectus supplement states otherwise, the contingent capital securities initially will be represented by one or more global securities in registered form, without coupons attached, and will be deposited with or on behalf of one or more depositaries, including, without limitation, DTC, Euroclear and/or Clearstream Luxembourg, and will be registered in the name of such depositary or its nominee. Our obligations, as well as the obligations of the trustee and those of any third parties employed by us or the trustee, run only to persons who are registered as holders of the contingent capital securities. Unless and until the contingent capital securities are exchanged in whole or in part for other securities that we issue or the global securities are exchanged for definitive contingent capital securities (see “— Definitive Contingent Capital Securities”), the global contingent capital securities may not be transferred except as a whole by the depositary to a nominee or a successor of the depositary. The contingent capital securities may be