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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 , 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 23 August 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:

23 August 2016

Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:

2,158,718

Highest price paid per share:

£5.4400

Lowest price paid per share:

£5.3920

Volume weighted average price paid per share:

£5.4163

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 23,066,417 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 19,902,020,918 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc is 19,902,020,918. 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

08:01:35

540.50

1,985

08:02:22

540.30

191

08:02:22

540.30

360

08:02:22

540.30

3,360

08:02:31

540.30

924

08:02:31

540.30

302

08:02:31

540.30

298

08:02:31

540.30

161

08:02:39

540.80

2,042

08:02:41

540.40

480

08:02:41

540.40

1,200

08:02:59

540.40

2,677

08:02:59

540.80

2,728

08:03:35

540.70

502

08:04:04

540.80

2,977

08:04:27

540.60

1,291

08:04:27

540.80

2,810

08:04:27

540.60

1,129

08:04:27

540.60

191

08:04:27

540.60

1,100

08:05:13

541.10

341

08:05:13

541.10

3,000

08:05:13

541.00

550

08:05:18

541.00

550

08:05:18

541.00

450

08:05:30

540.80

550

08:05:40

540.80

550

08:05:45

540.80

3,000

08:05:45

540.80

550

08:05:46

540.80

474

08:06:03

540.50

610

08:06:04

540.40

610

08:06:04

540.40

5,230

08:06:09

540.40

610

08:06:09

540.40

295

08:06:14

540.40

1,324

08:06:14

540.40

610

08:06:14

540.40

20

08:06:37

540.20

1,107

08:06:37

540.20

2,000

08:07:14

540.70

801

08:07:14

540.70

692

08:07:19

540.60

362

08:07:19

540.60

692

08:07:25

540.60

692

08:07:27

540.50

5,230

08:07:27

540.50

1,849

08:08:06

540.70

610

08:08:11

540.80

2,727

08:08:16

540.80

533

08:08:16

540.80

610

08:08:16

540.80

2,900

08:08:21

540.60

3,895

08:08:21

540.70

1,568

08:08:36

540.60

610

08:08:46

540.60

610

08:08:46

540.60

587

08:08:56

540.70

575

08:09:03

541.00

1,000

08:09:03

541.00

634

08:09:03

541.00

2,000

08:09:08

541.00

634

08:09:30

541.00

603

08:09:30

541.00

634

08:09:30

541.00

34

08:09:37

540.90

480

08:10:00

541.30

1,679

08:10:00

541.30

3,000

08:10:17

541.30

678

08:10:17

541.30

567

08:10:17

541.30

531

08:10:17

541.30

2,138

08:10:22

541.00

1,723

08:10:34

541.00

1,808

08:10:42

541.00

1,947

08:10:42

541.00

192

08:10:47

541.00

392

08:10:57

541.00

2,000

08:11:02

541.00

1,100

08:11:02

541.00

2,000

08:11:07

540.70

1,205

08:11:19

540.60

970

08:11:19

540.60

1,100

08:11:19

540.60

970

08:11:33

540.60

227

08:11:33

540.50

970

08:11:33

540.60

942

08:12:18

540.30

3,933

08:12:25

540.30

1,087

08:12:31

540.30

617

08:13:24

540.30

1,947

08:13:24

540.30

1,200

08:13:24

540.30

1,200

08:13:24

540.40

200

08:13:24

540.40

950

08:13:24

540.40

1,200

08:13:24

540.40

191

08:13:24

540.40

2,000

08:13:43

540.30

1,277

08:13:43

540.30

935

08:13:44

540.30

1,200

08:13:44

540.30

1,161

08:13:49

540.30

2,000

08:14:21

540.60

528

08:14:31

540.60

754

08:14:31

540.60

752

08:14:51

540.30

1,405

08:14:51

540.30

2,375

08:15:20

540.70

1,166

08:15:20

540.70

1,200

08:15:25

540.70

1,166

08:15:40

540.80

598

08:15:40

540.80

503

08:15:40

540.80

600

08:16:02

540.80

1,695

08:16:02

540.80

751

08:16:02

540.80

1,200

08:16:03

540.70

436

08:16:03

540.70

1,200

08:16:35

540.70

4,087

08:17:22

540.70

448

08:17:22

540.70

47

08:17:27

540.70

1,976

08:17:33

540.90

2,000

08:17:40

540.70

1,260

08:17:45

540.50

1,300

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