Overseas Regulatory Announcement

RNS Number : 9266Z

HSBC Holdings PLC

23 September 2015

The following is the text of an announcement released to The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited on 23 September 2015 pursuant to rule 17.06A of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited:

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23 September 2015

(Hong Kong Stock Code: 5)

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC

GRANT OF SHARE OPTIONS

This announcement is made pursuant to rule 17.06A of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

On 22 September 2015 HSBC Holdings plc (the "Company") granted share options ("Options") to employees to subscribe for a total of 52,629,208 ordinary shares of US$0.50 each of the Company under the HSBC Holdings Savings-Related Share Option Plan. The following are the details of the grant:

Price at which the Options granted	Option Period	Number of shares under Option
GBP4.0472	3 years	35,766,330
	5 years	16,862,878
Total number of options granted	52,629,208
Closing price of the ordinary shares on the date of grant	GBP4.8740
Validity period of the Options	3 years, exercisable from 1 November 2018 to 30 April 2019
	5 years, exercisable from 1 November 2020 to 30 April 2021

There were no options granted to any director of the Company.

For and on behalf of

HSBC Holdings plc

Ben J S Mathews

Group Company Secretary

The Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc as at the date of this announcement are: Douglas Flint, Stuart Gulliver, Phillip Ameen^†, Kathleen Casey^†, Safra Catz^†, Laura Cha^†, Lord Evans of Weardale^†, Joachim Faber^†, Rona Fairhead^†, Sam Laidlaw^†, Irene Lee^†, John Lipsky^†, Rachel Lomax^†, Iain Mackay, Heidi Miller^†, Marc Moses, Sir Simon Robertson^†, Jonathan Symonds^† and Pauline van der Meer Mohr^†.