Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-195127
Chunk: 140

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: 424B5
Chunk 140
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 withholding pursuant to Applicable Law. In addition, amounts deducted or withheld by the paying agent under this provision shall be treated as paid to the holder of a contingent capital security, and we shall not pay Additional Amounts in respect of such deduction or withholding, except to the extent these provisions explicitly provide otherwise. Whenever in this prospectus there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of interest, if any, on, or in respect of, any contingent capital securities of any series or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any contingent capital security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided for in this prospectus to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the terms of the indenture for contingent capital securities and the provisions described in this prospectus and as if express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) were made in any provision thereof where such express mention is not made. Redemption Any terms of the redemption of any series of contingent capital securities, whether at our option or upon the occurrence of certain circumstances (including, but not limited to, the occurrence of certain tax or regulatory events), will be set forth in the relevant prospectus supplement. Modification and Waiver Modifications of, and amendments to, the contingent capital securities indenture with respect to the contingent capital securities of a series may be made by us and the trustee, without the consent of the holders of the contingent capital securities of such series for certain purposes and otherwise with the consent of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the contingent capital securities of such series then outstanding; provided, however, that no such modification or amendment may, without the consent of the holder of each outstanding contingent capital security affected thereby:

| • |     | change the principal amount of, or any premium or rate of interest with respect to, any contingent capital 
 security;                                                                                                  |

| • |     | change our obligation, or any successor’s, to pay contingent capital additional amounts, if any; |

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| • |     | change the places at which payments are payable or the currency of payment; |

| • |     | impair the right to sue for the enforcement of any payment due and payable; |

| • |     | reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of outstanding contingent capital securities of the series                                                                                                           
 necessary to modify or amend the contingent capital securities indenture or to waive compliance with certain provisions of the contingent capital securities indent