HSBC Holdings PLC Transaction in Own Shares (8070X)

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RNS Number : 8070X

HSBC Holdings PLC

14 August 2018

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC

14 August 2018

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 9 May 2018.

 
Date of purchase:                      14 August 2018 
Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 
 each purchased:                       2,452,666 
Highest price paid per share:          GBP7.1940 
Lowest price paid per share:           GBP7.1380 
Volume weighted average price paid     GBP7.1653 
 per share: 
 

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company will have 20,237,132,750 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 19,911,859,343. 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/8070X_1-2018-8-14.pdf

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

Enquiries to:

Lee Davis

Shareholder Services

[phone]

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