HSBC : Transaction in own shares 31 August 2016 - Announcement made to the HK stock exchange - English (60-page PDF 811KB)

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HSBC Holdings plc Overseas Regulatory Announcement

The attached announcement has been released to the other stock exchanges on which HSBC Holdings plc is listed.

The Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc as at the date of this announcement are: Douglas Flint, Stuart Gulliver, Phillip Ameen† , Kathleen Casey† , Laura Cha† , Henri de Castries† , Lord Evans of Weardale† , Joachim Faber† , Sam Laidlaw† , Irene Lee† , John Lipsky† , Rachel Lomax† , Iain Mackay, Heidi Miller† , Marc Moses, David Nish† , Jonathan Symonds† , Pauline van der Meer Mohr† and Paul Walsh† .

† Independent non-executive Director Hong Kong Stock Code: 5

HSBC Holdings plc

Registered Office and Group Head Office:

8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, United Kingdom Web: www.hsbc.com

Incorporated in England with limited liability. Registered in England: number 617987

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 31 August 2016 Transaction in own shares

HSBC Holdings plc (the Company) announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange from Goldman Sachs International (Goldman Sachs) as part of its buyback programme announced on 4 August 2016.

Date of purchase:	31 August 2016
Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:	4,236,584
Highest price paid per share:	£5.6950
Lowest price paid per share:	£5.6230
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	£5.6685

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 37,287,407 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 19,888,088,519 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc is 19,888,088,519. 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 schedule of individual trades by Goldman Sachs is set out below.

Schedule of purchases - individual transactions

Time	Price (p)	Quantity
08:01:19	565.80	1,850
08:01:29	566.10	1,750
08:01:34	566.10	1,550
08:01:39	566.20	1,019
08:01:44	566.20	50
08:01:50	566.00	17
08:01:55	566.00	1,050
08:02:00	565.80	5,360
08:02:01	565.80	2,446
08:02:21	565.50	166
08:02:21	565.50	5,194
08:02:26	565.60	326
08:02:26	565.60	852
08:02:34	565.60	543
08:02:53	565.90	5,360
08:03:13	565.70	2,527
08:03:14	565.70	2,833
08:03:34	565.60	5,360
08:03:53	565.70	273
08:03:53	565.70	485
08:03:53	565.70	160
08:03:53	565.70	2,100
08:03:53	565.70	2,318
08:04:08	565.40	2,983
08:04:08	565.40	2,377
08:04:37	565.50	2,910

08:04:37	565.50	1,597
08:04:54	565.50	1,152
08:05:00	565.50	2,868
08:05:05	565.50	454
08:05:05	565.50	464
08:05:05	565.50	1,553
08:05:33	565.50	4,559
08:05:43	565.40	1,189
08:05:43	565.40	5,311
08:06:02	565.60	3,598
08:06:07	565.50	1,100
08:06:07	565.50	459
08:06:20	565.60	3,712
08:06:25	565.60	1,782
08:06:37	565.60	471
08:06:37	565.60	630
08:06:37	565.60	2,200
08:06:42	565.60	222
08:06:42	565.60	1,967
08:06:54	565.60	388
08:06:54	565.60	329
08:06:54	565.60	2,200
08:06:54	565.60	279
08:06:59	565.60	1,952
08:07:08	565.40	5,260
08:07:29	565.50	1,200
08:07:29	565.50	1,972
08:07:29	565.50	338
08:07:29	565.50	1,300
08:07:29	565.50	107
08:07:29	565.50	889
08:07:59	565.50	4,412
08:07:59	565.50	414
08:08:00	565.50	675
08:08:20	565.50	4,148
08:08:36	565.50	310
08:08:36	565.50	1,400
08:08:36	565.50	397
08:08:36	565.50	1,200
08:08:40	565.60	2,000
08:08:40	565.60	428
08:08:57	565.60	1,208
08:08:57	565.60	1,248
08:08:57	565.60	1,264
08:08:57	565.60	627
08:08:57	565.60	1,294
08:09:15	565.50	4,104
08:09:15	565.50	727
08:09:28	565.40	1,140
08:09:28	565.40	4,220

08:09:49	565.40	1,200
08:09:49	565.40	2,000
08:09:54	565.40	420
08:09:54	565.40	1,988
08:10:21	565.30	1,640
08:10:21	565.30	526
08:10:21	565.30	300
08:10:21	565.30	2,763
08:10:21	565.30	177
08:10:26	565.20	1,339
08:10:30	565.10	552
08:10:30	565.10	114
08:10:31	565.40	2,000
08:10:31	565.40	508
08:10:31	565.40	731
08:10:38	565.20	2,112
08:10:41	565.20	3,248
08:10:55	565.20	5,360
08:11:20	565.30	1,319
08:11:20	565.30	561
08:11:22	565.30	2,283
08:11:33	565.30	575
08:11:33	565.30	1,019
08:11:37	565.20	1,331
08:11:37	565.20	2,000
08:11:42	565.20	1,097
08:11:42	565.20	659
08:11:53	565.20	2,151
08:11:58	565.20	1,297
08:12:21	565.10	2,000
08:12:21	565.10	560
08:12:35	565.20	195
08:12:35	565.20	2,200
08:12:35	565.20	286
08:12:35	565.20	235
08:12:37	565.10	1,640
08:12:37	565.10	191
08:12:40	565.20	775
08:12:40	565.20	219
08:12:40	565.20	567
08:12:50	565.10	2,297
08:12:57	565.10	517
08:12:57	565.10	566
08:13:05	565.20	1,298
08:13:10	565.20	2,000
08:13:13	565.10	1,707
08:13:15	565.10	337
08:13:20	565.10	337
08:13:34	565.00	2,000
08:13:34	565.00	338