Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-117014
Chunk: 165

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 424B5
Chunk 165
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directors (the “board”) to allot shares. A copy of the Articles of Association has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

General

At the 2023 AGM, the holders of
ordinary shares passed an ordinary resolution granting the board the general and unconditional authority pursuant to, and for the purposes of, section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 to exercise all the powers of HSBC Holdings to allot ordinary shares
and to grant rights to subscribe for, or to convert any security into, ordinary shares up to a specified aggregate nominal amount.

Subject to certain specified limitations described below, the board was given the authority to allot ordinary shares and to grant rights to
subscribe for, or to convert any security into, shares in the HSBC Holdings (a) up to an aggregate nominal amount of $1,997,127,937, (b) up to an aggregate nominal amount of $3,328,546,562 in connection with an offer or invitation to
(x) holders of ordinary shares, in proportion to the respective number of ordinary shares held by them, and (y) holders of other securities, bonds, debentures or warrants which, in accordance with the rights attaching thereto, are entitled
to participate in such an offer or invitation or as the board considers necessary, (c) comprising equity securities (as defined in section 560 of the Companies Act 2006) up to an aggregate nominal amount of $6,657,093,124 in connection with a
rights issue to (i) holders of ordinary shares, in proportion to the respective number of ordinary shares held by them, and (ii) holders of other securities, bonds, debentures or warrants which, in accordance with the rights attaching
thereto, are entitled to participate in such an offer or invitation or as the board considers necessary and (d) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £150,000 (in the form of 15,000,000
non-cumulative preference shares of £0.01 each), €150,000 (in the form of 15,000,000 non-cumulative preference shares of €0.01 each) and US$150,000 (in
the form of 15,000,000 non-cumulative preference shares of US$0.01 each). However, (i) no more than $3,328,546,562 can be allotted or granted under clauses (a) and (b