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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 5 December 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:

5 December 2016

Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:

4,041,922

Highest price paid per share:

£6.3170

Lowest price paid per share:

£6.2010

Volume weighted average price paid per share:

£6.2686

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 282,216,975 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 19,785,959,829 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc is 19,785,959,829. 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

08:01:00

621.20

1,523

08:01:02

621.10

1,376

08:01:49

620.20

797

08:01:54

620.20

1,735

08:02:01

620.10

290

08:02:02

620.10

605

08:02:03

620.10

140

08:02:03

620.10

29

08:02:04

620.10

548

08:02:04

620.10

328

08:02:04

620.10

23

08:02:05

620.10

600

08:02:05

620.10

65

08:02:06

620.10

632

08:02:06

620.10

65

08:02:10

620.10

1,254

08:02:35

620.70

1,900

08:02:35

620.70

667

08:02:35

620.70

516

08:02:35

620.70

684

08:02:35

620.70

1,135

08:02:35

620.70

986

08:02:54

620.20

704

08:03:08

620.20

360

08:03:34

620.60

727

08:04:15

621.60

500

08:04:15

621.60

300

08:04:16

621.60

500

08:04:16

621.60

400

08:04:16

621.60

300

08:04:16

621.60

300

08:04:16

621.60

300

08:04:16

621.60

2,099

08:04:24

621.00

1,153

08:04:26

621.00

516

08:04:42

621.00

859

08:05:00

620.90

587

08:05:07

620.90

4,678

08:05:21

621.70

500

08:05:30

622.00

1,573

08:05:30

622.00

3,298

08:06:36

623.00

5,000

08:06:36

623.00

3,194

08:06:36

622.80

1,979

08:06:36

622.80

1,569

08:06:38

622.30

1,443

08:07:05

622.40

334

08:07:05

622.40

1,554

08:07:11

623.00

1,375

08:07:12

623.00

5,000

08:07:12

623.00

1,652

08:07:34

623.10

4,663

08:08:06

623.10

2,156

08:08:11

622.90

1,178

08:08:13

623.20

1,559

08:08:57

623.70

5,055

08:08:58

623.70

5,309

08:08:58

623.70

4,759

08:09:13

623.80

4,934

08:09:14

623.90

5,014

08:09:15

624.00

686

08:09:28

623.50

2,000

08:09:29

623.50

2,000

08:09:30

623.50

667

08:09:35

623.40

5,263

08:09:37

623.30

4,970

08:09:37

623.30

2,000

08:09:37

623.30

1,850

08:09:38

623.30

2,000

08:09:38

623.30

2,153

08:09:45

623.30

650

08:10:20

623.80

3,224

08:10:20

623.80

1,727

08:10:22

623.80

5,465

08:10:22

623.80

437

08:10:22

623.80

3,861

08:10:24

623.70

1,802

08:10:24

623.70

2,000

08:10:24

623.70

178

08:10:32

623.80

1,787

08:10:35

623.60

1,460

08:10:53

623.70

3,910

08:11:06

623.80

4,624

08:11:06

623.80

1,913

08:11:06

623.80

20

08:11:36

623.50

3,638

08:12:04

623.80

2,000

08:12:04

623.80

1,590

08:12:06

623.80

516

08:12:10

623.70

103

08:12:10

623.70

2,626

08:12:17

623.90

563

08:12:17

623.90

1,331

08:12:28

623.60

3,829

08:12:28

623.40

28

08:12:29

623.40

605

08:12:29

623.40

1,409

08:12:53

623.80

2,000

08:12:56

623.60

4,530

08:12:58

623.60

4,403

08:13:07

624.00

1,138

08:13:13

624.00

2,311

08:13:14

624.00

1,096

08:13:14

624.00

1,185

08:13:42

623.70

3,095

08:13:42

623.70

2,000

08:13:42

623.70

2,441

08:13:44

623.50

2,878

08:13:46

623.50

551

08:13:46

623.50

1,101

08:13:58

623.00

2,115

08:13:58

623.00

1,236

08:14:16

622.50

1,424

08:14:17

622.40

1,139

08:14:35

622.20

29

08:14:41

622.30

3,364

08:14:41

622.30

1,300

08:15:05

621.50

947

08:15:09

621.70

2,000

08:15:10

621.60

1,172

08:15:18

621.70

4,310

08:15:18

621.70

1,468

08:15:30

621.40

2,227

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