Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-034819
Chunk: 139

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 424B5
Chunk 139
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 interest payment date on or in respect of any Parity Securities, the Securities and any Junior Securities, in the case of each of (i) and (ii), excluding any payments already accounted for in determining the Distributable Items. “Relevant Regulator” means the PRA or any successor entity primarily responsible for our prudential supervision. S-89

“Relevant Rules” means, at any time, the laws, regulations, requirements,
guidelines and policies relating to capital adequacy (including, without limitation, as to leverage) then in effect in the UK including, without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, as may be required by the Capital Instruments Regulations
or the Banking Act and any regulations, requirements, guidelines and policies relating to capital adequacy adopted by the Relevant Regulator applicable to us from time to time (whether or not such requirements, guidelines or policies are applied
generally or specifically to us or to us and any of our holding or subsidiary companies or any subsidiary of any such holding company), in each case as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.

“Relevant Stock Exchange” means, (i) in respect of our ordinary shares, the LSE or if our ordinary shares are no longer
admitted to listing, trading and/or quotation by the LSE, the principal stock exchange or securities market by which our ordinary shares are then admitted to listing, trading and/or quotation, and (ii) in respect of any securities other than
our ordinary shares, the principal stock exchange or securities market on which the Approved Entity Shares or such securities, as applicable, are then admitted to listing, trading and/or quotation.

“Relevant Supervisory Consent” means as (and to the extent) required, a consent or waiver to the relevant purchase, repurchase or
redemption from the Relevant Regulator. For the avoidance of doubt, Relevant Supervisory Consent will not be required if none of the Securities qualify as part of our regulatory capital.

“Relevant Tax Effect” means a circumstance, as on the date hereof or at any time thereafter, that interest payments (or our funding
costs as recognised in our accounts) under or with respect to the Securities are not or would not be deductible for UK corporation tax purposes (whether for us, or for companies with which we are grouped for UK tax purposes).

“relevant UK resolution authority” has the meaning given to such term under “—Agreement with Respect to the Exercise of UK Bail-inPower.”

“Reset Date” has the meaning