Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-195127
Chunk: 156

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: 424B5
Chunk 156
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 Shares

HSBC Holdings can sell any ordinary shares of a holder (or any ordinary share to which a person is entitled by transmission on death or
bankruptcy or otherwise by operation of law) if such holder has not claimed a dividend for a period of 12 years during which at least three dividends were payable with respect to the ordinary shares. HSBC Holdings must send a notice either in hard
copy form to the last known physical address, or in electronic form to the last known email address, that HSBC Holdings has for the member or the person entitled

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by transmission to the ordinary share or the address for the service of notices notified under Article 163.3 of the Articles of Association giving notice of HSBC Holdings’ intention to sell the relevant shares. Before sending such notice, HSBC Holdings must have used such reasonable efforts as it considers appropriate in the circumstances (in its discretion) to trace the relevant holder. HSBC Holdings may then sell the ordinary shares if it does not receive any response from the holders of those ordinary shares within three months of sending the notice. After selling the ordinary shares, the net proceeds of the sale will be forfeited and will belong to HSBC Holdings. HSBC Holdings will not be liable in any respect to the person who would have been entitled to the ordinary shares by law for the proceeds of sale. HSBC Holdings may use the money for such good causes as the board from time to time thinks fit. Transfer of Ordinary Shares The ordinary shares may be transferred by an instrument in any usual form or in any other form approved by the board. The board may refuse to register a transfer, unless:

| • |     | the ordinary shares are fully paid (provided that the board will not refuse to register a transfer of                                                                         
 partly paid ordinary shares which are listed on the London Stock Exchange if to do so would prevent dealing in the ordinary shares taking place on an open and proper basis); |

| • |     | it is duly stamped (if required); |

| • |     | it is duly presented for registration at the prescribed place together with the relevant share certificate and                                                                                       
 other evidence of title as the board reasonably require (except in the case of a transfer by a recognised person where a certificate has not been issued or in the case of an uncertificated share); |

| • |     | it is in respect of only one class of ordinary shares; |

| • |     | it is in favor of a single transferee or not more than four joint transferees; and |