Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001089113-25-000040
Chunk: 493

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 493
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BC Holdings: Scrip dividends There were no scrip dividends issued during the year. Treasury shares HSBC Holdings does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury.

| HSBC Holdings plcAnnual Report on Form 20-F | 351 |

| All-employee share plans1                       | HSBC Holdingsordinary shares issued 
                                from | Aggregatenominal value 
                     to | Market value per share |       |
|:------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------:|-----------------------:|-----------------------:|------:|
|                                                 |                                     |                      $ |                      £ |     £ |
| HSBC International Employee Share Purchase Plan |                             141,770 |                 70,885 |                  5.957 | 6.707 |

1 In respect of the HSBC Holdings Savings Related Share Option Plan (UK), no new shares were issued under this plan. All exercises were satisfied by market purchased shares. See page 358 for details of options granted, exercised and lapsed.

| HSBC share plans                                 | HSBC Holdingsordinary shares issued 
                                from | Aggregatenominal value 
                     to | Market value per share |       |
|:-------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------:|-----------------------:|-----------------------:|------:|
|                                                  |                                     |                      $ |                      £ |     £ |
| Vesting of awards under the HSBC Share Plan 2011 |                          10,141,660 |              5,070,830 |                  5.799 | 7.177 |

Authorities to allot and to purchase shares and pre-emption rights At the AGM in 2024, shareholders renewed the general authority for the Directors to allot new shares up to 12,700,701,506 ordinary shares, 15,000,000 non-cumulative preference shares of £0.01 each, 15,000,000 non-cumulative preference shares of $0.01 each, 15,000,000 non-cumulative preference shares of €0.01 each. Shareholders also renewed the authority for the Directors to make market/off-market purchases of up to 1,905,105,226 ordinary shares. The Directors exercised their market/off-market purchase authority from both the 2023 AGM and the 2024 AGM and repurchased 1,302,256,972 ordinary shares during the year. In addition, shareholders gave authority for the Directors to grant rights to subscribe for, or to convert any security into, no more than 3,810,210