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HSBC HOLDINGS PLC STOCKBROKERS Incorporated in England on 1 January 1959 with Goldman Sachs limited liability under the UK Companies Act Peterborough Court Registered in England: number 617987 133 Fleet Street London EC4A 2BB REGISTERED OFFICE AND United Kingdom GROUP HEAD OFFICE HSBC Bank plc 8 Canada Square 8 Canada Square London E14 5HQ London E14 5HQ United Kingdom United Kingdom Telephone: 44 (0) 20 7991 8888 Facsimile: 44 (0) 20 7992 4880 Web: www.hsbc.com REGISTRARS Principal Register Computershare Investor Services PLC PO Box 1064, The Pavilions Bridgwater Road Bristol BS99 3FA United Kingdom Telephone: 44 (0) 870 702 0137 Hong Kong Overseas Branch Register Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited Hopewell Centre Rooms 1806-1807 18th Floor 183 Queen’s Road East Hong Kong Telephone: 852 2862 8628 Bermuda Overseas Branch Register Corporate Shareholder Services The Bank of Bermuda Limited 6 Front Street Hamilton HM11 Bermuda Telephone: 1 441 299 6737 ADR Depositary The Bank of New York 101 Barclay Street Floor 22W New York, NY 10286 USA Telephone: 1 888 269 2377 Paying Agent (France) HSBC France 103 avenue des Champs Elysées 75419 Paris Cedex 08 France Telephone: 33 1 40 70 22 56 472 © Copyright HSBC Holdings plc 2008 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of HSBC Holdings plc. Published by Group Finance, HSBC Holdings plc, London Cover designed by Addison Corporate Marketing Limited, London; text pages designed by Group Communications (Asia), The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Hong Kong Printed by Elegance Printing Company Limited, Hong Kong, on 9 Lives 55 Silk paper using vegetable oil-based inks. Made in Italy, the paper comprises 55% pre- and post-consumer waste, and 45% virgin fibre. Pulps used are elemental chlorine-free. The FSC logo identifies products which contain wood from well-managed forests certified in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council. Mixed Sources Cert no. SGS-COC-2116 © 1996 Forest Stewardship Council A.C. Photography Cover (front): Vietnam Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/ Getty Images China Philip Gostelow (back): United Arab Emirates Adam Hinton Brazil Ary Diesendruck/ Getty Images Group Chairman Niall McDiarmid 08GPA0004 .