HSBC Finance Corp. 8-K

HSBC Holdings PLC
30 July 2007


Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

This Form 8-K contains slides in Exhibit 99 pertaining to the financial results
of HSBC Finance Corporation for the six months ended June 30, 2007.

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The information included in the slides with respect to HSBC Finance Corporation
is presented on an International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRSs")
Management Basis. IFRS is comprised of accounting standards issued by the
International Accounting Standards Board and its predecessor body and
interpretations issued by the International Financial Reporting Interpretations
Committee and its predecessor body. IFRS Management Basis results are IFRS
results that assume that mortgage and private label receivables transferred to
HSBC Bank USA, N.A., an affiliate of HSBC Finance Corporation, have not been
sold and remain on the HSBC Finance Corporation balance sheet.

HSBC Finance Corporation has filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
period ended June 30, 2007 contemporaneously with this Form 8-K. The Form 10-Q
is prepared on a U.S. GAAP basis with segment results prepared on an IFRS
Management Basis.


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