HSBC Holdings Board Changes

HSBC Holdings PLC
05 March 2007

                       HSBC HOLDINGS PLC - BOARD CHANGES

Jose Francisco Gil Diaz has, for personal reasons, resigned as a Director of
HSBC Holdings plc with effect from 5 March 2007.

There is no other information required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 13.51(2)
of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong
Kong.

The Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc as at the date of this advertisement 
are:
Stephen Green, Baroness Dunn*, Sir Brian Moffat+, M F Geoghegan, Lord Butler+, 
R K F Ch'ien+, J D Coombe+, R A Fairhead+, D J Flint, W K L Fung+, S Hintze+, 
J W J Hughes-Hallett+, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart+, G Morgan+, S W Newton+, 
S M Robertson+, H Sohmen* and Sir Brian Williamson+.

* Non-executive Director
+ Independent non-executive Director
                                   
Note to editors:
HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Holdings plc serves over 125 million customers worldwide through around
10,000 offices in 82 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific
region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of some US$1,861
billion at 31 December 2006, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and
financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the world's
local bank'.

                            





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