Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-117014
Chunk: 126

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 424B5
Chunk 126
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 assessment or other governmental charge;

| • |     | is imposed in respect of any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property, wealth or similar tax, 
 duty, assessment or other governmental charge; or                                                                 |

| • |     | is imposed in respect of any combination of the above items. |

Unless the relevant prospectus supplement provides otherwise, all payments in respect of the senior debt securities will be made subject to any withholding or deduction required pursuant to (i) sections 1471 to 1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any associated regulations or other official guidance; (ii) any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of clause (i); or (iii) any agreement pursuant to the implementation of clauses (i) or 15

(ii) with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction (collectively, “FATCA”) and we will not be required to pay any Additional Amounts on account of any such deduction or withholding required pursuant to FATCA. With respect to any series of senior debt securities, any paying agent shall be entitled to make a deduction or withholding from any payment which it makes under the senior debt securities of such series and the relevant indenture for or on account of (i) any present or future taxes, duties or charges if and to the extent so required by any applicable law and (ii) any deduction or withholding required by FATCA (together, “Applicable Law”). In either case, the paying agent shall make any payment after a deduction or withholding has been made pursuant to Applicable Law and shall report to the relevant authorities the amount so deducted or withheld. However, such deduction or withholding shall not apply to payments made under the senior debt securities of such series and this prospectus through the relevant clearing systems. In all cases, the paying agent shall have no obligation to gross up any payment made subject to any deduction or 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 senior debt security, and we shall not pay Additional Amounts in respect of such deduction or withholding, except to the extent these provisions explicitly provide otherwise. Dated Subordinated Debt Securities Unless the relevant prospect