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WRITTEN NOTICE NON-CORE LARGE EXPOSURES GROUP (NCLEG) TRADING BOOK PERMISSION ______

To: HSBC Bank Plc (FRN: 114216) (the “firm”)

Of: 8 Canada Square, London, E14 5HQ

Reference Number: 5013848

Date: 21 September 2018

ACTION

(1) In accordance with Article 400(2)(c) of Regulation 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26th June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms (the “CRR”), the Prudential Regulation Authority (“the PRA”) has decided to grant the firm permission to exempt from the application of CRR Article 395(1) trading book exposures in accordance with 2.2 NCLEG trading book exemption of the PRA Rulebook Large Exposures, to the counterparties listed in Annex 1 to this written notice.

(2) In the event that the conditions for grant of this NCLEG Trading Book Permission set out in Article 400(3) of the CRR and in Supervisory Statement 16/13 cease to be met, the PRA may vary the terms and conditions of this NCLEG Trading Book Permission or revoke it in whole or in part.

Effect

(3) This permission takes effect on 1 October 2018 and expires on 1 October 2021.

Decision-Maker

(4) The decision which gave rise to the obligation to give this Notice was made by Simon Morley, Head of Division.

Publication

(5) Details of this permission will be published on the Financial Services Register.

PRA contacts

(6) For more information concerning this matter generally, the firm should contact its usual supervisory contact.

Simon Morley Head of Division, Major UK Deposit Taker Supervision Prudential Regulation Authority

Annex 1 Counterparties 1. HSBC Bank Plc 2. HSBC Bank Middle East Ltd 3. HSBC France 4. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited 5. HSBC Bank AS 6. HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) S.A 7. HSBC Bank Polska SA 8. HSBC Finance Corporation 9. HSBC USA Inc 10. HSBC Bank USA NA 11. HSBC Markets (USA) Inc 12. HSBC Securities (USA) Inc 13. HSBC North America Holdings Inc