Board & Senior Mgt Changes

HSBC Holdings PLC
03 January 2006


                               HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
                      BOARD AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT CHANGES

Simon Robertson (64) has been appointed a Director of HSBC Holdings plc with
effect from 3 January 2006.

Mr Robertson, an independent non-executive Director, is non-executive Chairman
of Rolls-Royce Group plc, a non-executive Director of The Economist Newspaper
Limited and Berry Bros. & Rudd Limited and the founder member of Simon Robertson
Associates LLP. He is the former Chairman of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and a
former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International. Mr Robertson is a
former non-executive Director of Inchcape plc, Invensys plc and the London Stock
Exchange.

There are no matters relating to the appointment of Mr Robertson that need to be
disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13(2) to (6).

Biographical details about Mr Robertson are attached.

Sir John Kemp-Welch, an independent non-executive Director since 2000 will
retire at the 2006 Annual General Meeting.

Alan Jebson, an executive Director since 2000 and Group Chief Operating Officer
since 2003, will also retire at the 2006 Annual General Meeting, after 28 years'
distinguished service.

Dyfrig John, Chief Executive designate of HSBC Bank plc, has been appointed a
Group Managing Director with effect from 6 March 2006.

Note to editors:

The HSBC Group

Serving over 110 million customers worldwide, the HSBC Group has approximately
9,700 offices in 77 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific
region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$1,467
billion at 30 June 2005, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and
financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the world's
local bank'.

Simon Robertson

Simon Robertson has been appointed to the Board as an independent non-executive
Director of HSBC Holdings plc with effect from 3 January 2006.

Mr Robertson is non-executive Chairman of Rolls-Royce Group plc and the founder
member of Simon Robertson Associates LLP. He is a Director of The Economist
Newspaper Limited and Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited and a
non-executive Director of Berry Bros. & Rudd Limited. He is Chairman of Trustees
of the Royal Academy Trust and Trustee of the Eden Project and the Royal Opera
House Endowment Fund.

He joined the Kleinwort Benson group in 1963. During his career with the group,
he held the positions of Head of the Corporate Finance Division, director of
Kleinwort Benson Limited and Deputy Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Group Plc,
culminating in his appointment as Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Group Plc in
1996, a position he held until 1997. He is a former Managing Director of Goldman
Sachs International, which he joined in 1997 and from which he retired in August
2005.

Mr Robertson served as a non-executive Director of Inchcape plc from 1996 to
2005. He was a non-executive Director of Invensys plc from 1999 to 2005, and of
the London Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2001.

Mr Robertson was educated at Eton. In 1961 and 1962 Mr Robertson trained with
Banque de Neuflize, Schlumberger, Mallet in Paris, Kredietbank N.V. in Brussels,
Bankhaus Merck Finck in Munich and Munchmeyer & Co. in Hamburg.

He is married and has three children. In his spare time he enjoys ski-ing and
walking in the Alps.


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