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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 wishing to remove ordinary shares to or from each register must do so before 4.00pm local time on 14 August 2025. Shares repurchased under HSBC Holdings plc buy-backs, which have not yet been cancelled from the Hong Kong custodians’ CCASS account as at the record date, will not be eligible for the dividend. Transfers of ADSs must be lodged with the depositary by 11.00am local time on 15 August 2025 in order to receive the dividend. ADS holders who receive a cash dividend will be charged a fee, which will be deducted by the depositary, of $0.005 per ADS per cash dividend.

Dividend on preference share A quarterly dividend of £0.01 per Series A sterling preference share is payable on 17 March, 16 June, 15 September and 15 December 2025 for the quarter then ended at the sole and absolute discretion of the Board of HSBC Holdings plc. Accordingly, the Board of HSBC Holdings plc has approved a quarterly dividend to be payable on 15 September 2025 to holders of record on 29 August 2025.

Proposed interim dividends for 2025 We established and achieved a target basis dividend payout ratio of 50% of earnings per ordinary share (‘EPS’) for 2023 and 2024, excluding the special dividend paid in 2024. We maintain our 50% target basis payout ratio for 2025, subject to meeting capital requirements. EPS for this purpose excludes material notable items and related impacts. Material notable items in 2025 primarily relate to the income statement impacts associated with actions to exit or wind down certain businesses to redeploy costs from non-strategic activities into areas where we have a

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competitive advantage and accretive returns. They also include a dilution loss and the recognition of an impairment of our investment in BoCom, as well as any remaining impacts from transactions that completed in previous periods. Material notable items in 2024 included the impacts related to the sales of our businesses in Canada and Argentina, the sale of our retail banking operations in France and the acquisition of SVB UK. The Board has adopted a dividend policy designed to provide sustainable cash dividends, while retaining the flexibility to invest and grow the business in the future