Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-034819
Chunk: 153

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 424B5
Chunk 153
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 should consult with their counsel before purchasing the Securities to determine the need for, if necessary, and the availability of, any exemptive relief under any Similar Law.

ERISA and Similar Law Representations

Through its purchase or other acquisition and holding of the Securities (including any interest in a Security), each purchaser or other
acquirer of the Securities (and each Plan fiduciary and each fiduciary of a Non-ERISA Plan directing or advising a Plan or Non-ERISA Plan to purchase or otherwise
acquire and hold the Securities) will be deemed to have represented and agreed that either: (A) no assets of a Plan or Non-ERISA Plan have been used to acquire or will be used to hold such Securities or
an interest therein or (B) the purchase, other acquisition, holding and disposition of the Securities or any interest therein do not and will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited
transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or violation of Similar Law.

Each Plan fiduciary (and each fiduciary for a Non-ERISAPlan) should consult with its legal adviser concerning the potential consequences to the plan under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law of an investment in the Securities.

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UNDERWRITING (CONFLICTS OF INTEREST) The underwriters named below have severally agreed, subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement with us, as amended, effective as of the date of this prospectus supplement, to purchase the principal amount of Securities set forth below opposite their respective names.

| Name of Underwriter                   |     | Principal Amount of 
 Securities          |               |
|:--------------------------------------|:----|:--------------------|--------------:|
| HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.            |     | $                   | 1,192,500,000 |
| Barclays Capital Inc.                 |     | $                   |    16,875,000 |
| BofA Securities, Inc.                 |     | $                   |    16,875,000 |
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc.         |     | $                   |    16,875,000 |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC               |     | $                   |    16,875,000 |
| ABN AMRO Capital Markets (USA) LLC    |     | $                   |     9,706,000 |
| BBVA Securities Inc.                  |     | $                   |