Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0809N

HSBC Holdings PLC

03 August 2017

 

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC

3 August 2017

Transaction in own shares

HSBC Holdings plc (the Company) announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange from Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited (Credit Suisse) as part of its buyback announced on 1 August 2017.

Date of purchase:	3 August 2017
Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:	2,136,326
Highest price paid per share:	£7.6380
Lowest price paid per share:	£7.5310
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	£7.5886

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company will have 20,467,719,874 ordinary shares in issue, including 325,273,407 ordinary shares which are held in treasury. Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc will be 20,142,446,467. 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 full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0809N_-2017-8-3.pdf

This announcement will also be available on HSBC's website at www.hsbc.com/sea

Enquiries to:

Loren Wulfsohn
Shareholder Services
+ 44 (0) 207 991 8918

 

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