Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-195127
Chunk: 157

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: 424B5
Chunk 157
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| • |     | HSBC Holdings has no lien on the ordinary shares. |

The board may refuse to register a transfer of uncertificated ordinary shares in such other circumstances as may be permitted or required by the Regulations and the relevant system. Moreover, a transfer of ordinary shares will not be registered if the holder has failed to provide the required particulars as described under “ Disclosure of Interests in Ordinary shares.” The transferor will remain the holder of the ordinary shares concerned until the name of the transferee is entered in the share register in respect of the transfer. If the board refuses to register a transfer of an ordinary share, it must inform the transferee of its refusal within two months of receiving the transfer request, together with the reasons for the refusal. The board must return the refused instrument of transfer to the person depositing it, except in the case of suspected fraud. The board is required to keep the following registers of its members:

| • |     | in the UK, the Principal Register; |

| • |     | in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Branch Register; and |

| • |     | in such other countries or territories as the board may from time to time determine, the Overseas Branch 
 Registers.                                                                                               |

Subject to applicable law, any class of shares may be held, registered, converted to, transferred or otherwise dealt with, in uncertificated form or certificated form and converted from uncertificated form to certificated form in accordance with the Regulations and the practices instituted by Euroclear UK & International Limited, or such other person as may from time to time be approved by His Majesty’s Treasury under the Regulations as operator of the relevant system. 47

Variation of Class Rights and Alteration of Share Capital Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2006, the consent in writing of the holders of at least three-quarters in nominal value of the issued shares in a class (excluding any shares held as treasury shares), or the sanction by the shareholders of that class of a special resolution passed at a separate general meeting, is required to vary or abrogate the rights of the class, unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class. Two persons holding or representing by proxy at least one third of the nominal amount of the shares of the relevant class must be present for the separate general meeting to be valid (except at an adjourned meeting, at which the quorum will be any holder of shares of the class, present in person or by proxy) and any