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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 27 September 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:

27 September 2016

Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:

3,269,132

Highest price paid per share:

£5.7870

Lowest price paid per share:

£5.7080

Volume weighted average price paid per share:

£5.7520

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 105,735,402 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 19,819,868,995 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc is 19,819,868,995. 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

08:01:17

577.40

5,855

08:02:01

577.50

1,138

08:02:01

577.50

1,819

08:02:01

577.50

650

08:02:02

577.50

558

08:03:04

578.20

78

08:03:04

578.20

827

08:03:13

578.10

197

08:03:15

578.10

1,900

08:03:19

578.10

200

08:03:33

578.10

1,264

08:03:33

578.10

4,591

08:03:33

578.10

1,200

08:03:40

578.00

1,384

08:03:40

577.90

3,195

08:03:41

577.90

820

08:04:30

577.80

841

08:04:50

577.80

22

08:04:59

577.70

169

08:05:03

577.70

2,187

08:05:05

577.70

3,499

08:05:05

577.70

2,801

08:05:29

577.70

486

08:05:37

577.80

1,246

08:05:40

577.80

283

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:40

577.80

79

08:05:40

577.80

377

08:05:43

577.80

1,770

08:05:43

577.70

3,560

08:05:57

577.50

26

08:05:57

577.50

5,829

08:06:14

577.10

1,771

08:06:17

577.10

4,084

08:06:36

577.00

800

08:06:36

577.00

300

08:06:36

577.00

115

08:06:36

577.00

5,855

08:06:55

576.80

1,920

08:06:55

576.80

1,273

08:06:55

576.80

1,962

08:07:10

576.80

1,534

08:07:33

577.60

2,000

08:07:35

577.40

2,833

08:08:09

577.50

2,300

08:08:09

577.50

1,432

08:08:09

577.50

700

08:08:09

577.50

1,423

08:08:09

577.50

2,198

08:08:09

577.50

3,657

08:08:27

577.30

342

08:08:29

577.30

2,000

08:08:38

577.40

3,362

08:08:38

577.40

121

08:08:39

577.40

1,292

08:09:16

577.30

1,714

08:09:16

577.30

1,249

08:09:26

577.40

1,843

08:09:27

577.30

1,234

08:09:30

577.30

1,195

08:09:33

577.40

1,902

08:09:53

577.70

2,000

08:10:00

577.70

310

08:10:00

577.70

600

08:10:00

577.70

152

08:10:00

577.70

116

08:10:00

577.70

494

08:10:00

577.70

1,000

08:10:00

577.70

75

08:10:10

577.40

2,553

08:10:10

577.40

3,302

08:10:30

576.90

5,855

08:10:31

576.90

1,372

08:11:07

577.50

2,000

08:11:11

577.50

2,505

08:11:43

577.80

5,855

08:12:00

578.00

5,850

08:12:29

578.30

1,628

08:12:29

578.30

3,715

08:12:29

578.30

485

08:12:51

578.60

5,855

08:12:51

578.60

961

08:12:51

578.60

1,829

08:12:56

578.60

3,065

08:12:58

578.60

700

08:13:04

578.70

4,315

08:13:04

578.70

1,540

08:13:25

578.60

5,457

08:13:47

578.20

1,870

08:13:52

578.20

1,000

08:13:52

578.20

1,911

08:13:52

578.20

1,565

08:14:01

578.10

1,614

08:14:01

578.10

1,221

08:14:01

578.10

2,718

08:14:38

578.20

2,976

08:14:38

578.20

450

08:14:39

578.20

278

08:14:39

578.20

844

08:14:39

578.20

614

08:14:42

577.70

502

08:14:42

577.70

821

08:14:51

577.70

1,360

08:14:51

577.70

2,000

08:14:51

577.70

1,617

08:15:23

577.70

5,797

08:15:24

577.80

2,000

08:15:32

577.80

1,100

08:15:32

577.80

224

08:15:32

577.80

3,519

08:15:55

577.90

4,862

08:16:32

578.00

5,855

08:16:32

578.00

1,188

08:16:37

577.90

314

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