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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 outside the UK, or (iv) are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the FSMA) in connection with the issue or sale of any Securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). This document is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this document relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons. This prospectus supplement has been prepared on the basis that any offer of the Securities in the EEA will be made pursuant to an exemption under Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended, the “Prospectus Regulation”) from the requirement to produce a prospectus for offers of the Securities. Neither we nor any of the underwriters have authorized, nor do we or any of the underwriters authorize, the making of any offer of the Securities in circumstances in which an obligation arises for us or the underwriters to publish a prospectus for such offer. S-4

Neither we nor the underwriters have authorized, nor do we authorize, the making of any offer of Securities through any financial intermediary, other than offers made by the underwriters which
constitute the final placement of the Securities contemplated in this prospectus supplement.

This prospectus supplement has been prepared
on the basis that any offer of Securities in the UK will be made pursuant to an exemption under Section 86 of the FSMA from the requirement to produce a prospectus for offers of Securities. Neither we nor any of the underwriters have
authorized, nor do we or any of the underwriters authorize, the making of any offer of the Securities in circumstances in which an obligation arises for us or the underwriters to publish a prospectus for such offer. Neither we nor the underwriters
have authorized, nor do we authorize, the making of any offer of Securities through any financial intermediary, other than offers made by the underwriters, which constitute the final placement of the Securities contemplated in this prospectus
supplement.

Each securityholder (which, for these purposes, includes each beneficial owner) acknowledges that The Stock Exchange of Hong
Kong Limited (the “HKSE”) and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (the “SFC”) may request us to report certain information with respect to such securityholder (which may be obtained from the