HSBC HOLDINGS PLC Current Report (Foreign Issuer)

HSBC Holdings plc furnished a Form 6-K to incorporate specific documents into registration statement file number 333-277306.

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HSBC Holdings plc furnished a Form 6-K to incorporate specific documents into registration statement file number 333-277306.

The filing includes a Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Securities Indenture dated November 6, 2025, and legal opinions from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP acting as special US and special English counsel, each dated November 6, 2025.

The report is signed by James Murphy, Global Head of Markets Treasury, on November 6, 2025.

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of November 2025

Commission File Number: 001-14930

HSBC Holdings plc

8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, England

(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F).

Form 20-F ☒   Form 40-F ☐

This Report on Form 6-K is hereby incorporated by reference in the following HSBC Holdings plc registration statement: file number 333-277306

HSBC Holdings plc (the “Registrant”) hereby incorporates by reference the following exhibits to this report on Form 6-K into its registration statement: file number 333-277306.

Exhibit No.		Description of Document
4.1		Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture to the Senior Securities Indenture, dated November 6, 2025.
5.1		Opinion of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, special US counsel to the Registrant, dated November 6, 2025.
5.2		Opinion of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, special English counsel to the Registrant, dated November 6, 2025.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

				HSBC Holdings plc
Date: November 6, 2025				By:		/s/ James Murphy
				Name:		James Murphy
				Title:		Global Head of Markets Treasury

[Signature Page to Form 6-K Relating to the Senior Issuance]