Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-011593
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: 6-K
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 the HSBC Group and/or the Hang Seng Bank Group’s business activities or investments, interest rates, the monetary and interest rate policies of the countries in which the HSBC Group and/or the Hang Seng Bank Group operate, inflation or deflation, foreign exchange rates, the performance of the financial markets in the countries in which the HSBC Group and/or the Hang Seng Bank Group operate and globally, changes in domestic and foreign laws, regulations and taxes, changes in competition and the pricing environments in the countries in which the HSBC Group and/or the Hang Seng Bank Group operate and regional or general changes in asset valuations. Other unknown or unpredictable factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.

All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to HSBC Holdings, HSBC Asia Pacific, Hang Seng Bank and/or persons acting on behalf of any of them are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above. The forward-looking statements included herein are made only as of the date of this announcement.

Hang Seng Bank Shareholders will be informed of any material changes to the information contained in this announcement or any new material information of Hang Seng Bank as soon as possible in accordance with Rule 9.1 of the Takeovers Code.**

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#### INSIDE INFORMATION
This announcement contains inside information for HSBC Holdings and Hang Seng Bank pursuant to the Inside Information Provisions (as defined in the Hong Kong Listing Rules) under Part XIVA of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong). This announcement also contains inside information for HSBC Holdings for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended).

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#### DEFINITIONS
In this announcement, the following expressions have the meaning set out below unless the context otherwise requires:

| "2025                                             
 Third Interim Dividend"                           | the                                                                                            
 third interim dividend of Hang Seng Bank for the financial year                                
 ending 31 December 2025, which is expected to be declared by the                               
 Hang Seng Bank Board on 10 October 2025 and to be paid by Hang Seng                            
 Bank thereafter                                                                                |                   |
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| "acting                                           
 in concert"                                       | has the                                                                                        
 meaning as