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FORM 6-K SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 Report of Foreign Private Issuer Pursuant to Rule 13a - 16 or 15d - 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 For the month of August 2021 Commission File Number: 001-14930 HSBC Holdings plc 42nd Floor, 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 X Form 40-F ...... Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ______ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): ______ This Report on Form 6-K with respect to our interim results for the first half of 2021 is hereby incorporated by reference in HSBC Holdings plc’s registration statement on Form F-3 (333-253632). Neither our website referred to herein, nor any of the information contained on our website, is incorporated by reference in the Form 6-K. Contents Overview Our global businesses 1a Cautionary statement regarding forward-looking statements 1b Certain defined terms We serve customers through three global businesses. On 2 Highlights pages 16 to 22 we provide an overview of our performance 4 Group Chief Executive’s review in the first half of 2021 for each of the global businesses, as well as our Corporate Centre. 8 Our strategy 10 How we do business 12 Financial overview Wealth and Personal Banking (’WPB’) 16 Global businesses We help millions of our customers look after their day-to-day finances and manage, protect 23 Risk overview and grow their wealth. Interim management report Commercial Banking (‘CMB’) Our global reach and expertise help domestic 27 Financial summary and international businesses around the world 34 Global businesses unlock their potential. 42 Geographical regions 52 Reconciliation of alternative performance measures Global Banking and Markets (’GBM’) 55 Risk We provide a comprehensive range of financial services and products to corporates, 55 – Key developments in the first half of 2021 governments and institutions. 55 – Areas of special interest 59 – Credit risk 86 – Treasury risk 94 – Market risk 96 – Insurance manufacturing operations risk Interim condensed financial statements 98 Interim condensed financial statements 104 Notes on the interim condensed financial statements Additional information 125 Shareholder information 131 Abbreviations A reminder The currency we report in is US dollars. Adjusted measures We supplement our IFRSs figures with non-IFRSs measures used by management internally that constitute alternative performance measures under European Securities and Markets Authority guidance and non-GAAP financial measures defined in and presented in accordance with US Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations. These measures are highlighted with the following symbol: Further explanation may be found on page 14. In this document we use the following abbreviations to refer to reporting periods: 1H21 First half of 2021 2Q21 Second quarter of 2021 2H20 Second half of 2020 1Q21 First quarter of 2021 1H20 First half of 2020 2Q20 Second quarter of 2020 1Q20 First quarter of 2020 None of the websites referred to in this Interim Report on Form 6-K for the half-year ended June 30, 2020 (the ‘Form 6-K’), including where a link is provided, nor any of the information contained on such websites is incorporated by reference in the Form 6-K. HSBC Holdings plc Overview Cautionary statement regarding forward-looking statements This Form 6-K contains certain forward- and transaction volumes, lower wealth and benchmark rates, as well as the transition looking statements with respect to HSBC’s: insurance manufacturing revenue, and lower of legacy Ibor contracts to near risk-free financial condition; results of operations and or negative interest rates in markets where benchmark rates, which exposes HSBC business, including the strategic priorities; we operate, as well as, more generally, the to material execution risks, and increases financial, investment and capital targets; and potential for material adverse impacts on some financial and non-financial risks; and ESG targets/commitments described herein. our financial condition, results of operations, price competition in the market segments prospects, liquidity, capital position and we serve; Statements that are not historical facts, credit ratings; deviations from the market – changes in government policy and including statements about HSBC’s beliefs and economic assumptions that form the regulation, including the monetary, interest and expectations, are forward-looking basis for our ECL measurements (including, rate and other policies of central banks and statements. Words such as ‘will’, ‘should’, without limitation, as a result of the Covid-19 other regulatory authorities in the principal ‘expects’, ‘targets’, ‘anticipates’, ‘intends’, pandemic); potential changes in HSBC’s markets in which we operate and the ‘plans’, ‘believes’, ‘seeks’, ‘estimates’, dividend policy; changes in foreign consequences thereof (including, without ‘potential’ and ‘reasonably possible’, variations exchange rates and interest rates, limitation, actions taken as a result of of these words and similar expressions including the accounting impact resulting the Covid-19 pandemic); initiatives to are intended to identify forward-looking from financial reporting in respect of change the size, scope of activities and statements. These statements are based hyperinflationary economies; volatility in interconnectedness of financial institutions on current plans, information, data, estimates equity markets; lack of liquidity in wholesale in connection with the implementation of and projections, and therefore undue reliance funding or capital markets, which may affect stricter regulation of financial institutions in should not be placed on them. Forward- our ability to meet our obligations under key markets worldwide; revised capital and looking statements speak only as of the date financing facilities or to fund new loans, liquidity benchmarks, which could serve to they are made. HSBC makes no commitment investments and businesses; geopolitical deleverage bank balance sheets and lower to revise or update any forward-looking tensions or diplomatic developments returns available from the current business statements to reflect events or circumstances producing social instability or legal model and portfolio mix; changes to tax occurring or existing after the date of any uncertainty, such as the developments in laws and tax rates applicable to HSBC, forward-looking statements. Hong Kong and the South China Sea, the including the imposition of levies or taxes US’s approach to strategic competition with designed to change business mix and Written and/or oral forward-looking China, supply chain restrictions, claims of risk appetite; the practices, pricing or statements may also be made in the periodic human rights violations, diplomatic tensions responsibilities of financial institutions reports to the US Securities and Exchange between China and the UK, the EU, Australia serving their consumer markets; Commission, summary financial statements and India, and other potential areas of expropriation, nationalisation, confiscation to shareholders, proxy statements, offering tension, which may affect HSBC by creating of assets and changes in legislation relating circulars and prospectuses, press releases regulatory, reputational and market risks; to foreign ownership; the future of the UK’s and other written materials, and in oral the efficacy of government, customer and relationship with the EU following the UK’s statements made by HSBC’s Directors, HSBC’s actions in managing and mitigating withdrawal from the EU, which may officers or employees to third parties, climate change and in supporting the global continue to be characterised by uncertainty including financial analysts. transition to net zero carbon emissions, despite the signing of the Trade and which may cause both idiosyncratic and Forward-looking statements involve inherent Cooperation Agreement between the UK systemic risks resulting in potential financial and the EU; passage of the Hong Kong risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned and non-financial impacts; illiquidity and that a number of factors could cause actual national security law and restrictions on downward price pressure in national real telecommunications, as well as the US results to differ, in some instances materially, estate markets; adverse changes in central from those anticipated or implied in any Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which have banks’ policies with respect to the provision caused tensions between China, the US forward-looking statement. These include, of liquidity support to financial markets; but are not limited to: and the UK; general changes in government heightened market concerns over sovereign policy that may significantly influence creditworthiness in over-indebted countries; – changes in general economic conditions investor decisions; the costs, effects and adverse changes in the funding status of in the markets in which we operate, such outcomes of regulatory reviews, actions public or private defined benefit pensions; as continuing or deepening recessions or litigation, including any additional societal shifts in customer financing and and fluctuations in employment and compliance requirements; and the effects investment needs,