Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-034819
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 424B5
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 they form part
of UK domestic law by virtue of the EUWA or as implemented in UK law, as appropriate), in each case as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.

“Cash Dividend” means any dividend or distribution in respect of our ordinary shares to our ordinary shareholders which is to be
paid or made in cash (in whatever currency), however described and whether payable out of share premium account, profits, retained earnings or any other capital or revenue reserve or account and including a distribution or payment to our ordinary
shareholders upon or in connection with a reduction of capital.

“CET1 Capital” means, as of any date, the sum, expressed in
U.S. dollars, of all amounts that constitute common equity Tier 1 capital of the HSBC Group as of such date, less any deductions from common equity Tier 1 capital required to be made as of such date, in each case as calculated by us on a
consolidated basis and without applying the transitional provisions set out in Part Ten (Transitional Provisions, Reports, Reviews and Amendments) of UK CRR (or in any successor provisions thereto or any equivalent provisions of the Relevant
Rules which replace or supersede such provisions) in accordance with the Relevant Rules applicable to us as of such date (which calculation will be binding on the trustee, the paying agent and the securityholders). For the purposes of this
definition, the term “common equity Tier 1 capital” will have the meaning assigned to such term in the Capital Instruments Regulations as interpreted and applied in accordance with the Relevant Rules then applicable to the HSBC Group or by
the Relevant Regulator.

“Chapter 4” means Chapter 4 of the “CRR Firms – Capital Buffers” Part of the PRA
Rulebook or any succeeding provision(s) amending or replacing such Chapter.

“Clearstream Luxembourg” means Clearstream Banking
S.A.

“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Companies Act” means the Companies Act 2006 (United Kingdom) as amended from time to time.

“Conversion Date” has the meaning given to such term under “—Automatic Conversion Upon Capital Adequacy Trigger Event—Automatic Conversion.”

“Conversion Price” has the meaning given to such term under “—Automatic Conversion Upon Capital Adequacy Trigger Event—Conversion Shares.”

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“Conversion Shares” has the meaning given to such term under “— Automatic Conversion Upon Capital Adequacy Trigger