Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-132352
Chunk: 217

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: 424B5
Chunk 217
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 be payable or due but for the fact that the holder or the beneficial owner of the contingent capital                                                                                                                                      
 security is domiciled in, or is a national or resident of, or engaging in business or maintaining a permanent establishment or being physically present in, the Taxing Jurisdiction, or otherwise has some connection or former connection with the 
 Taxing Jurisdiction other than the holding or ownership of a contingent capital security, or the collection of interest payments on, or the enforcement of, any contingent capital security;                                                        |

| • |     | would not be payable or due but for the fact that the certificate representing the relevant contingent capital                                                                                                                              
 securities (i) is presented for payment in the Taxing Jurisdiction or (ii) is presented for payment more than 30 days after the date payment became due or was provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the holder would 
 have been entitled to such Additional Amount on presenting the same for payment at the close of such 30-day period;                                                                                                                         |

| • |     | would not have been imposed if presentation for payment of the certificate representing the relevant contingent    
 capital securities had been made to a paying agent other than the paying agent to which the presentation was made; |

| • |     | is imposed in respect of a holder that is not the sole beneficial owner of the interest, or a portion of it, or                                                                                                                                     
 that is a fiduciary or partnership, but only to the extent that a beneficiary or settlor with respect to the fiduciary, a beneficial owner or member of the partnership would not have been entitled to the payment of an Additional Amount had the 
 beneficiary, settlor, beneficial owner or member received directly its beneficial or distributive share of the payment;                                                                                                                             |

| • |     | is imposed because of the failure to comply by the holder or the beneficial owner of any payment on such                                                                                            
 contingent capital securities with our request addressed to the holder or the beneficial owner, including our written request related to a claim for relief under any applicable double tax treaty: |

| (a) | to provide information concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with a taxing jurisdiction 
 of the holder or the beneficial owner; or                                                                       |

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| (b) | to make any declaration or other similar claim to satisfy any information or reporting requirement, |

if the information or declaration is required or imposed by a statute, treaty, regulation, ruling or administrative practice of the Taxing Jurisdiction as a precondition to exemption from withholding or deduction of all