HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (Co. Reg. No. 196100003D)

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE 63RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF

HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED HELD ON 27 APRIL 2023

The Board of Directors of Hong Leong Finance Limited (the "Company") wishes to announce that at the Company's 63rd Annual General Meeting held today, 27 April 2023 ("AGM"), all resolutions referred to in the Notice of the AGM dated 29 March 2023 were duly passed by way of poll which was conducted electronically.

  1. The results of the votes cast on each of the AGM ordinary resolutions are set out below:

Ordinary Business - Ordinary Resolutions

Resolution number and

Total

For

Against

details

number of

shares

Number of

As a

Number of

As a

represented

percentage

shares

shares

percentage

by votes for

of total

of total

and against

number of

number of

the relevant

votes for

votes for

resolution

and against

and against

the

the

resolution

resolution

(%)

(%)

Resolution 1

Receipt of the Directors'

Statement and Audited

233,247,035

233,225,635

99.99

21,400

0.01

Financial Statements together

with the Auditors' Report

thereon

Resolution 2

233,035,703

233,014,303

99.99

21,400

0.01

Declaration of a Final Dividend

Resolution 3

232,928,539

232,864,569

99.97

63,970

0.03

Approval of Directors' Fees

Resolution 4(a)

Re-election of Mr Kwek Leng

227,409,600

226,019,267

99.39

1,390,333

0.61

Beng as Director

Resolution 4(b)

Re-election of Mr Kwek Leng

232,350,008

232,228,054

99.95

121,954

0.05

Peck as Director

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HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (Co. Reg. No. 196100003D)

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE 63RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF

HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED HELD ON 27 APRIL 2023

Ordinary Business - Ordinary Resolutions (cont'd)

Resolution number and

Total

For

Against

details

number of

shares

Number of

As a

Number of

As a

represented

shares

percentage

shares

percentage

by votes for

of total

of total

and against

number of

number of

the relevant

votes for

votes for

resolution

and against

and against

the

the

resolution

resolution

(%)

(%)

Resolution 4(c)

Re-election of Ms Tan Siew San

232,849,467

232,779,609

99.97

69,858

0.03

as Director

Resolution 5

Appointment of Ms Jeann Low

232,826,467

232,733,929

99.96

92,538

0.04

Ngiap Jong as Director

Resolution 6

Re-appointment of KPMG LLP

231,532,367

230,746,349

99.66

786,018

0.34

as Auditors

Special Business - Ordinary Resolutions

Resolution 7

Authority for Directors to issue

shares and/or make or grant

offers,

agreements

or

options

pursuant to Section 161 of the

232,985,667

232,165,690

99.65

819,977

0.35

Companies Act 1967 and the

Listing

Manual

of

Singapore

Exchange Securities

Trading

Limited

Resolution 8

Authority for Directors to offer

and grant options to eligible

participants

under

the Hong

Leong

Finance

Share

Option

Scheme 2001 (the "SOS")

226,719,441

221,334,704

97.62

5,384,737

2.38

other

than

Parent

Group

Employees and Parent Group

Non-Executive Directors and to

issue

shares

in

accordance

with the provisions of the SOS

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HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (Co. Reg. No. 196100003D)

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE 63RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF

HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED HELD ON 27 APRIL 2023

  1. Details of parties who are required to abstain from voting on the following resolutions:

Details of Party(ies)

Number of shares held

Resolution number

(in own name and/or

name of nominee)

Mr Kwek Leng Beng

6,667,567

4(a) and 8

Mr Kwek Leng Peck

517,359

4(b) and 8

Mr Kwek Leng Kee

1,595,079

8

Mr Kevin Hangchi

648,016

8

Appointment of Scrutineer

T S Tay Public Accounting Corporation was appointed the Scrutineer for the AGM.

Changes to the Composition of Board Committees

Pursuant to Rule 704(8) of the Listing Manual of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, we wish to inform that Ms Jeann Low Ngiap Jong was appointed as a Director of the Company at the AGM. Following her appointment as a Director, Ms Low has also been appointed as an additional member of the Audit Committee ("AC") and as a member of the Board Sustainability Committee ("BSC") in place of Ms Tan Siew San, following the conclusion of the AGM today. The Nominating Committee and the Board consider Ms Low to be independent.

With the above changes, the current composition of the AC and BSC are as follows:

AC

Mr Peter Chay (Chairman) - Lead Independent Director

Mr Tan Tee How - Independent Non-Executive Director ("INED")

Mr Clarence Yeo - INED

Ms Jeann Low - INED

BSC

Mr Kevin Hangchi (Chairman) - Non-Executive Director

Mr Clarence Yeo - INED

Ms Jeann Low - INED

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

Yeo Swee Gim, Joanne

Ng Siew Ping, Jaslin

Company Secretaries

27 April 2023

Singapore

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