Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-195127
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: 424B5
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 The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus. Each document incorporated by reference is current only as of the date of such document, and the incorporation by reference of such documents will not create any implication that there has been no change in our affairs since
the date thereof or that the information contained therein is current as of any time subsequent to its date. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus supplement and should be read with the same care.
When we update the information contained in documents that have been incorporated by reference by making future filings with the SEC, the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement is considered to be automatically updated
and superseded. In the case of a conflict or inconsistency between information contained in this prospectus supplement and information incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement, you should rely on the information contained in the
document that was filed later. We incorporate by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus the 2024 Form 20-F, the 2025 Q1 Earnings Release, the Form 6-Kfurnished to the SEC on June 6, 2025 (regarding the HSBC Group Chairman succession process), the Form 6-Kfurnished to the SEC on June 24, 2025 (regarding the capital reduction to increase HSBC Holdings’ distributable reserves) and the 2025 Interim Report.

In addition, all documents filed by us with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and, to the extent expressly stated therein, certain reports on Form 6-K furnished by us after the date of this prospectus supplement will also be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus from the date of

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filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this