# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001089113
**File Stem:** 0001654954-25-011848
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 4153
**Document Hash:** c3c290bdbf4ea3cf1759d15e0d3d0f56
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001654954-25-011848.hdr.sgml**: 20251016

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001654954-25-011848

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 6-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251016

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251016

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251016

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001089113
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SAVINGS INSTITUTION, FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6035]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 6-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-14930
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251396535

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8 CANADA SQUARE
- **CITY:** LONDON
- **STATE:** X0
- **ZIP:** E145HQ
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 442079913048

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 8 CANADA SQUARE
- **CITY:** LONDON
- **STATE:** X0
- **ZIP:** E14 5HQ

**FORM 6-K**

 **SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

 **Washington, D.C. 20549**

 **Report of Foreign Private Issuer**

 **Pursuant to Rule 13a - 16 or 15d - 16 of**

 **the Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

For the month of October

 **HSBC Holdings plc**

42nd Floor, 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, England

(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F).

Form 20-F X Form 40-F

The following is the text of an announcement released to The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on 16 October 2025 pursuant to rule 13.43 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited:

 *Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this document, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this document.*

16 October 2025

(Hong Kong Stock Code: 5)

 **HSBC HOLDINGS PLC**

 **EARNINGS RELEASE FOR THIRD QUARTER 2025 AND CONSIDERATION OF PAYMENT OF THIRD INTERIM DIVIDEND FOR 2025**

Pursuant to Rule 13.43 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, notice is given that a meeting of a committee of the Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc will be held on 28 October 2025 (the "Board Meeting") to consider the announcement of the Earnings Release for the Third Quarter 2025 (the "Results") and to consider the payment of a third interim dividend for 2025 on the ordinary shares (the "Dividend").

Subject to the approval and confirmation at the Board Meeting, the Dividend will be payable on 18 December 2025 to holders of record on 7 November 2025 on the Principal register in the United Kingdom, the Hong Kong Overseas Branch register, the Bermuda Overseas Branch register and for holders of American Depositary Shares in New York.

Further details of the Dividend will be detailed in the Results announcement if approved at the Board Meeting.

For and on behalf of

 **HSBC Holdings plc**

Aileen Taylor

Company Secretary

The Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc as at the date of this announcement comprises:

Brendan Robert Nelson\*,Georges Bahjat Elhedery, Geraldine Joyce Buckingham<sup>†</sup>, Rachel Duan<sup>†</sup>, Dame Carolyn Julie Fairbairn<sup>†</sup>, James Anthony Forese<sup>†</sup>, Ann Frances Godbehere<sup>†</sup>, Steven Craig Guggenheimer<sup>†</sup>, Manveen (Pam) Kaur, Dr José Antonio Meade Kuribreña<sup>†</sup>, Kalpana Jaisingh Morparia<sup>†</sup>, Eileen K Murray<sup>†</sup> and Swee Lian Teo<sup>†</sup>.

\* Independent non-executive Chair

<sup>†</sup>Independent non-executive Director

 **SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

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| HSBC Holdings plc |
| By: |
| Name: Aileen Taylor |
| Title: Group Company Secretary and Chief Governance Officer |
| Date: 16 October 2025 |

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