Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001193125-25-118867
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form: 8-A12B
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415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), the base prospectus dated February 23, 2024, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated May 8, 2025 (the Prospectusand the Prospectus Supplement, respectively). The Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement are incorporated herein by reference to the extent set forth below.

| Item 1. | Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered. |

Reference is made to the information set forth on pages 11 through 30 (under “Description of Debt Securities”) of the Prospectus and pages 50 through 60 (under “Taxation”) of the Prospectus, pages S-24 through S-36 (under “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to the Notes—We may issue securities pari passuwith the Notes and/or secured debt”) of the Prospectus Supplement, pages S-41 through S-61 (under “Description of the Notes”) of the Prospectus Supplement and page S-63 (under “Taxation”) of the Prospectus Supplement, all of which information is incorporated by reference in this registration statement.

| Item 2. | Exhibits. |

The following exhibits shall be, or have been, filed with the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. or the Commission:

| 1. | Indenture dated as of August 26, 2009 by and among the Registrant, The Bank of New York Mellon, as                                                                                                                                                                         
 trustee, and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as paying agent, registrar and exchange rate agent (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1(c) to the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form F-3) (File No. 333- 158065). |

| 2. | First Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 8, 2016 by and among the Registrant, The Bank of New York                                                                                                                               
 Mellon, as trustee, and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as paying agent, registrar and calculation agent (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Form 6-K (File No. 001-14930) dated March 8, 2016). |

| 3. | Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 25, 2016 by and among the Registrant, The Bank of New York                                                                                                                              
 Mellon,