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HSBC Holdings plc Overseas Regulatory Announcement

The attached announcement has been released to the other stock exchanges on which HSBC Holdings plc is listed.

The Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc as at the date of this announcement are: Douglas Flint, Stuart Gulliver, Phillip Ameen , Kathleen Casey , Laura Cha , Henri de Castries , Lord Evans of Weardale , Joachim Faber , Sam Laidlaw , Irene Lee , John Lipsky , Rachel Lomax , Iain Mackay, Heidi Miller , Marc Moses, David Nish , Jonathan Symonds , Jackson Tai , Pauline van der Meer Mohr and Paul Walsh .

Independent non-executive Director Hong Kong Stock Code: 5

HSBC Holdings plc

Registered Office and Group Head Office:

8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, United Kingdom Web: www.hsbc.com

Incorporated in England with limited liability. Registered in England: number 617987

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 20 October 2016 Transaction in own shares

HSBC Holdings plc (the Company) announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange from Goldman Sachs International (Goldman Sachs) as part of its buyback programme announced on 4 August 2016.

Date of purchase:

20 October 2016

Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:

2,713,013

Highest price paid per share:

£6.2600

Lowest price paid per share:

£6.1480

Volume weighted average price paid per share:

£6.2003

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 166,687,865 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 19,899,062,072 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc is 19,899,062,072. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, HSBC Holdings plc under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a schedule of individual trades by Goldman Sachs is set out below.

Schedule of purchases - individual transactions

Time

Price (p)

Quantity

08:01:01

617.70

1,797

08:01:07

617.70

1,356

08:01:31

617.50

1,539

08:01:53

616.40

5,611

08:01:54

616.20

1,757

08:02:00

616.00

2,868

08:02:01

615.80

404

08:02:01

615.80

29

08:02:02

615.80

91

08:02:03

615.80

111

08:02:03

615.80

1,703

08:02:23

615.70

982

08:02:25

616.30

1,200

08:02:25

616.30

263

08:02:29

616.40

1,847

08:02:33

616.30

1,100

08:02:54

616.10

76

08:02:55

616.10

2,725

08:02:55

616.10

1,675

08:03:19

616.30

1,553

08:03:19

616.30

4,131

08:03:19

616.30

939

08:03:19

616.30

3,369

08:03:19

616.30

35

08:03:22

616.10

2,149

08:03:26

615.70

1,130

08:03:26

615.70

176

08:03:44

616.00

1,724

08:03:44

616.00

1,276

08:03:44

616.00

187

08:03:56

616.00

1,328

08:04:21

616.40

5,959

08:04:26

616.40

1,715

08:04:26

616.20

1,241

08:05:10

616.10

900

08:05:10

616.10

2,456

08:06:01

615.40

379

08:06:01

615.40

919

08:06:10

615.30

929

08:06:30

614.80

2,153

08:06:50

615.30

1,529

08:06:50

615.30

820

08:06:59

615.50

119

08:07:00

615.50

1,400

08:07:03

615.40

1,000

08:07:03

615.40

542

08:07:03

615.40

388

08:07:49

615.60

4,550

08:07:49

615.60

46

08:08:06

615.80

2,000

08:08:08

615.40

1,393

08:08:45

615.50

750

08:08:45

615.50

950

08:08:48

615.50

950

08:09:01

615.60

219

08:09:01

615.60

479

08:09:01

615.60

634

08:09:06

615.60

1,302

08:09:06

615.60

1,300

08:09:07

615.60

662

08:09:12

615.60

2,000

08:09:12

615.60

1,300

08:09:14

615.60

2,000

08:09:19

615.50

1,203

08:09:21

615.40

1,770

08:09:30

615.40

3,400

08:09:35

615.40

300

08:10:02

615.80

1,333

08:10:02

615.80

800

08:10:02

615.80

109

08:10:02

615.80

1,376

08:10:02

615.80

2,000

08:10:02

615.80

824

08:10:43

616.00

1,307

08:11:00

616.00

2,193

08:11:04

615.90

1,252

08:11:05

615.90

1,579

08:11:12

615.60

2,678

08:12:21

616.10

3,000

08:12:21

616.10

2,541

08:12:26

616.10

3,000

08:12:26

616.10

3,295

08:12:27

616.10

1,816

08:12:29

616.10

1,298

08:12:31

616.20

1,907

08:12:42

616.10

1,198

08:12:43

616.10

1,200

08:12:43

616.10

2,133

08:12:45

616.00

1,353

08:13:16

615.70

4,067

08:15:20

616.10

301

08:15:20

616.10

2,000

08:15:20

616.10

1,695

08:15:20

616.10

1,100

08:15:20

616.10

880

08:15:21

616.00

2,372

08:15:21

616.00

1,076

08:15:30

616.10

150

08:15:31

616.10

2,929

08:15:31

616.10

814

08:15:31

615.90

60

08:15:32

615.90

3,792

08:15:43

615.60

807

08:15:47

615.60

807

08:15:57

615.90

1,648

08:16:13

616.10

550

08:16:27

616.10

1,880

08:16:32

616.10

3,000

08:16:32

616.10

977

08:16:34

616.10

1,936

08:16:39

616.00

2,927

08:16:39

616.00

550

08:16:39

616.00

1,000

08:16:39

616.00

869

08:16:58

615.90

1,445

08:16:58

615.90

446

08:17:05

615.90

1,471

08:17:05

615.90

1,023

08:17:05

615.90

280

08:17:14

615.90

1,198

08:17:14

615.90

865

08:17:29

616.10

372

08:17:29

616.10

803

08:17:31

616.20

899

08:17:31

616.20

515

08:17:31

616.10

1,200

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