Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-117014
Chunk: 149

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 424B5
Chunk 149
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 appointed HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as agent for service of process.

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DESCRIPTION OF CONTINGENT CAPITAL SECURITIES Contingent capital securities offered through this prospectus will be issued under a contingent capital securities indenture among HSBC Holdings, as issuer, The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as paying agent and registrar, as heretofore supplemented and amended. The following summary of certain provisions of the contingent capital securities and the contingent capital securities indenture and any such summary in any prospectus supplement do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and are qualified by reference to, all the provisions of the contingent capital securities and the contingent capital securities indenture. Defined terms used in this section but not otherwise defined in this prospectus have the meanings assigned to them in the contingent capital securities indenture. General The contingent capital securities indenture does not limit the amount of contingent capital securities that we may issue under it and provides that we may issue contingent capital securities from time to time in one or more series. The contingent capital securities will be our direct, unsecured and subordinated obligations. The contingent capital securities of each series will rank pari passuamong themselves, without any preference one over the other by reason of the date they were issued or otherwise. The relevant prospectus supplement will set forth the nature of the subordinated ranking of each series of contingent capital securities relative to the debt and equity issued by us, including to what extent the contingent capital securities may rank junior in right of payment to our other obligations or in any other manner. Please refer to the prospectus supplement relating to the particular series of contingent capital securities offered through this prospectus for the following terms, where applicable, of such contingent capital securities:

| • |     | the issue date; |

| • |     | the maturity date, if any; |

| • |     | the specific designation and aggregate principal amount of the contingent capital securities; |

| • |     | any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the contingent capital securities that may be authenticated or 
 delivered;                                                                                                    |

| • |     | if the amounts of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the contingent capital                                                                                                                                        
 securities may be determined with reference to an index or are otherwise not fixed on the issue date thereof, the manner in which such amounts will be determined and the calculation agent, if any, who will be appointed and authorized to calculate 
 such amounts;