Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-034819
Chunk: 84

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 424B5
Chunk 84
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 of certain material terms and provisions of the Securities supplements the description of certain terms and provisions of the contingent convertible securities of any series set forth in the accompanying prospectus under the heading “Description of Contingent Convertible Securities.” The terms described here, together with the relevant terms of contingent convertible securities contained in the accompanying prospectus, constitute a description of the material terms of the Securities. In cases of inconsistency between the terms described here and the relevant terms of the prospectus, the terms presented here will apply and replace those described in the prospectus.

The Securities will constitute a series of contingent
convertible securities issued under the indenture dated as of August 1, 2014 (as amended and supplemented from time to time) among us, The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as trustee, and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as paying
agent and registrar, the form of which is filed as an exhibit to our registration statement on Form F-3 (the “Registration Statement”). The indenture will be supplemented and amended by a seventeenth
supplemental indenture, which is expected to be entered into on the Issue Date among us, the trustee and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as paying agent, registrar and calculation agent (the indenture, together with the seventeenth supplemental
indenture, the “Indenture”), which will be filed as an exhibit to a report on Form 6-K on or about February 27, 2025, which will be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

If you purchase the Securities, your rights will be determined by the Securities, the Indenture and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), unless your Securities are converted to Conversion Shares after a Capital Adequacy Trigger Event as described under “—Automatic Conversion Upon Capital Adequacy Trigger Event,” in
which case your rights will be determined in accordance with the terms of our ordinary shares as described in the accompanying prospectus under “Description of Ordinary Shares.” You can read the Indenture and the form of Securities
at the location listed under “Where You Can Find More Information About Us.”

The Indenture and the Securities will be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, except that the subordination provisions of the Indenture and of the Securities (see “—Subordination”) and the waiver of set-off provisions of the Indenture and