Document regarding Listing Particulars

HSBC Holdings PLC
8 June 2001


Doc re Annual Update of the Programme for the Continuous Issue of Debt
Instruments

A copy of the above document has been submitted to the UK Listing Authority,
and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's
Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS

Tel. no. (0)20 7676 1000

(Documents will usually be available for inspection within six normal business
hours of this notice being given).