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NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY

Regulatory Filings Apr 16, 2024

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Regulatory Filings

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FINAL TERMS

UK MiFIR product governance/Professional investors and ECPs only target market - Solely for the purposes of each manufacturer's product approval process, the target market assessment in respect of the Notes has led to the conclusion that: (i) the target market for the Notes is only eligible counterparties, as defined in the FCA Handbook Conduct of Business Sourcebook (COBS), and professional clients, as defined in Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the EUWA) (UK MiFIR); and (ii) all channels for distribution of the Notes to eligible counterparties and professional clients are appropriate. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the Notes (a distributor)should take into consideration the manufacturers' target market assessment; however, a distributor subject to the FCA Handbook Product Intervention and Product Governance Sourcebook (the UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules) is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the Notes (by either adopting or refining the manufacturers' target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.

Prohibition of sales to EEA retail investors – The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (EEA). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (MiFID II); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (the Insurance Distribution Directive), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the EU PRIIPs Regulation) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the EU PRIIPs Regulation.

Prohibition of sales to UK retail investors – The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom (UK). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA; or (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the FSMA) and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement the Insurance Distribution Directive, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of UK MiFIR. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the UK PRIIPs Regulation) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.

Singapore Securities and Futures Act Product Classification - In connection with Section 309B of the Securities and Futures Act 2001, as amended, of Singapore (the SFA) and the Securities and Futures (Capital Markets Products) Regulations 2018 of Singapore (the CMP Regulations 2018), the Issuer has determined, and hereby notifies all relevant persons (as defined in Section 309A(1) of the SFA, the classification of the Notes as prescribed capital markets products (as defined in the CMP Regulations 2018) and Excluded Investment Products (as defined in MAS Notice SFA 04-N12: Notice on the Sale of Investment Products and MAS Notice FAA-N16: Notice on Recommendations on Investment Products).

Nationwide Building Society

(incorporated in England under the Building Societies Act 1986, as amended) (Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300XFX12G42QIKN82)

€500,000,000 Fixed Rate Reset Tier 2 Subordinated Notes due April 2034

issued pursuant to its U.S.\$25,000,000,000 European Note Programme

PART A – CONTRACTUAL TERMS

Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the Terms and Conditions set forth in the Base Prospectus dated 20 October 2023 (the Base Prospectus) and the supplemental prospectuses dated 17 November 2023 and 5 April 2024 the Supplements) which together constitute a base prospectus for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the UK Prospectus Regulation). This document constitutes the Final Terms of the Notes described herein for the purposes of the UK Prospectus Regulation and must be read in conjunction with the Base Prospectus and the Supplements in order to obtain all the relevant information. The Base Prospectus and the Supplements have been published on the website of the London Stock Exchange through its regulatory information service (http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-newshome.html) and are available on the website of the Issuer at https://www.nationwide.co.uk/about/investorrelations/funding-programmes/emtn.

TYPE OF NOTE

1. Status of the Notes: Subordinated
2. Interest Basis: Reset
(see paragraph
15
below)
DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTES
3. New Global Note: Yes
4. Form of Notes: Temporary
Global
Note
exchangeable
for
a
Permanent Global Note which is exchangeable for
Definitive Notes only upon an Exchange Event
5. (a) Series Number: 538
(b) Tranche Number: 1
(c) Date on which the Notes will be
consolidated and form a single
Series:
Not Applicable
6. (a) Nominal Amount of Notes to be
issued:
€500,000,000

(b) Aggregate
nominal
amount
of
Series:
€500,000,000
(c) Specified Currency: euro (€)
(d) Specified Denomination(s): €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess
thereof up to (and
including)
€199,000. No Notes in
definitive form will be issued with a denomination
above €199,000
(e) Calculation Amount: €1,000
7. Issue Price: 99.965
per cent. of the Nominal Amount of the Notes
8. Issue Date: 16
April 2024
9. Interest Commencement Date: Issue
Date
10. Automatic/optional conversion from one
Interest Basis to another:
Not Applicable
11. Additional Financial Centre(s): London
ANY) PAYABLE PROVISIONS RELATING TO INTEREST (IF
12. Fixed Rate Note Provisions Not Applicable
13. Zero Coupon Note Provisions Not Applicable
14. Floating Rate Note Provisions Not Applicable
15. Reset Note Provisions Applicable
(a) Initial Rate of Interest: 4.375
per cent. per annum payable in arrear on each
Interest Payment Date
(b) First Margin: +
1.65
per cent. per annum
(c) Subsequent Margin: Not Applicable
(d) Interest Payment Date(s): 16
April in each year from (and including) 16
April
2025 up to (and including)
the Maturity Date
(e) Fixed Coupon Amount to (but
excluding) the First Reset Date:
€43.75
per Calculation Amount
(f) Broken Amount(s): Not Applicable
(h) First Reset Date: 16
April 2029
(i) Second Reset Date: Not Applicable
(j) Subsequent Reset Date(s): Not Applicable
(k) Relevant Screen Page: Bloomberg Page ICAE1
(l) Mid-Swap Rate: Single Mid-Swap Rate
(m) the Mid-Swap Rate Determination
Time:
11.00 a.m.
(Central European Time)
(n) Fixed Leg Swap Duration: 12 months
(o) Floating Leg Swap Duration: 6 months
(p) Mid-Swap Floating Leg
Benchmark Rate:
6-month EURIBOR (calculated on an Actual/360 day
count
basis)
(q) Mid-Swap Fallback Rate in respect
of the first Reset Determination
Date:
2.733
per cent.
(r) Reference Bond Reset Rate Time: Not Applicable
(s) Reference Bond Fallback Rate
in
respect of the First Reset Period:
Not Applicable
(t) Designated CMT Reuters Page: Not Applicable
(u) Designated CMT Maturity Index: Not Applicable
(v) Day Count Fraction: Actual/Actual (ICMA)
(w) Determination Date(s): 16
April in each year
(x) Reset Determination Date(s): The second Business Day prior to the first day of the
First Reset Period
(y) Additional Business Centres: T2, London
(z) Business Day Convention: Following Business Day

Adjusted:
Not Applicable

Non-Adjusted:
Applicable
(aa) Calculation Agent: Agent
16. Benchmark Discontinuation: Applicable
(a) Benchmark Replacement: Applicable –
Condition 4.4(a) applies
(b) Benchmark Transition: Not Applicable

PROVISIONS REGARDING REDEMPTION/MATURITY

17. Maturity Date: 16
April 2034
18. Redemption at Issuer's option: Applicable
(a) Optional Redemption Date(s): 16
April 2029
(b) Optional Redemption Amount: €1,000 per Calculation Amount
(c) If redeemable in part: Not Applicable –
redeemable in whole only
(d) Notice periods: Minimum period: 15
days
Maximum period: 30
days
19. Clean-up Call: Not Applicable
20. only): Regulatory Event (Subordinated Notes Full or Partial Exclusion
21. (a) Senior Non-Preferred Notes: Loss
Absorption Disqualification Event
Redemption:
Not Applicable
(b) Loss Absorption Disqualification
Event:
Not Applicable
(c) Senior Non-Preferred Notes:
Substitution or
Variation:
Not Applicable
22. Redemption at Noteholder's option: Not Applicable
23. Final Redemption Amount: Subject to any purchase and cancellation or early
redemption, the Notes will be redeemed on the
Maturity Date at 100.00
per cent. of their nominal
amount
24. Early Redemption
Amount
payable
on
redemption for taxation reasons or (for
Subordinated
Notes
only)
following
a
€1,000
per Calculation Amount

GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THIS ISSUE OF NOTES

Regulatory Event or (for any Note) on an

Event of Default:

25. U.S. Selling Restrictions: Reg S Compliance Category 2: TEFRA D
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THIRD PARTY INFORMATION

The indicative rating descriptions set out in Part B of these Final Terms have been extracted from the respective websites of Moody's Investors Service Limited (Moody's), S&P Global Ratings UK Limited (S&P) and Fitch Ratings Ltd (Fitch). The Issuer confirms that such information has been accurately reproduced and that, so far as it is aware and is able to ascertain from information published by each credit rating agency, no facts have been omitted which would render the reproduced information inaccurate or misleading.

Signed on behalf of NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY

By: .................................................................... By: ........................................................... Duly Authorised Duly Authorised

UKO2: 2008001901.4

PART B – OTHER INFORMATION

1. LISTING AND ADMISSION TO TRADING

(a) Listing and Admission to trading: Application has been made by the Issuer (or on its
behalf) for the Notes to be admitted to trading on the
London Stock Exchange's
main
market and listing on
the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority
with effect from
on or around
the Issue Date.
(b) Estimated of total expenses related
to admission to trading:
£5,850 + VAT

2. RATINGS

Ratings: The Notes to be issued are expected to be rated:

Moody's: Baa1
S&P: BBB
Fitch: BBB+

A rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to suspension, reduction or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating agency.

The rating agencies above have published the following high-level descriptions of such ratings:

  • A rating of 'Baa1' by Moody's is described by it as follows: "Obligations rated Baa are judged to be medium-grade and subject to moderate credit risk and as such may possess certain speculative characteristics". "The modifier 1 indicates that the obligation ranks in the higher end of its generic rating category".

(https://ratings.moodys.com/rmc-documents/53954)

  • A rating of 'BBB' by S&P is described by it as follows: "An obligation rated 'BBB' exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to weaken the obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation".

(https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/artic les/190705-s-p-global-ratings-definitions-504352)

  • A rating of 'BBB+' by Fitch Ratings Ltd. is described by it as follows: "'BBB' ratings indicate that expectations of default risk are currently low.

The capacity for payment of financial commitments is considered adequate, but adverse business or economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity". "an additional +/- for AA through CCC levels indicating relative differences of probability of default or recovery for issues".

(https://www.fitchratings.com/products/ratingdefinitions#about-rating-definitions)

3. INTERESTS OF NATURAL AND LEGAL PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE ISSUE

Save for any fees payable to the Joint Lead Managers, so far as the Issuer is aware, no person involved in the issue of the Notes has an interest material to the offer. The Joint Lead Managers and their respective affiliates have engaged, and may in the future engage, in investment banking and/or commercial banking transactions with, and may perform other services for, the Issuer and its affiliates in the ordinary course of business.

4. OPERATIONAL INFORMATION

(a) ISIN: XS2801451654
(b) Common Code: 280145165
(c) Any clearing system(s) other than
Euroclear
and
Clearstream,
Luxembourg
and
the
relevant
identification number(s):
Not Applicable
(d) Names and addresses of additional
Paying Agent(s) (if any):
Not Applicable
(e) Intended to be held in a manner
which would allow Eurosystem
eligibility:
Yes. Note that the designation "yes"
simply means
that the Notes are intended upon issue to be deposited
with one of the International Central Securities
Depositories (ICSDs)
as common safekeeper and
does not necessarily mean that the Notes will be
recognised as eligible collateral for Eurosystem
monetary policy and intra day credit operations by the
Eurosystem either upon issue or at any or all times
during their life. Such recognition will depend upon
the European Central Bank (ECB)
being satisfied
that Eurosystem eligibility criteria have been met.
(f) Relevant Benchmark: EURIBOR is provided by European Money Markets
Institute. As at the date hereof, European Money
Markets
Institute
appears
in
the
register
of
administrators and benchmarks
established and
maintained by the Financial Conduct Authority
pursuant to Article 36 (Register of administrators and

benchmarks) of the UK Benchmarks Regulation.

5. DISTRIBUTION

(a) Prohibition of sales to EEA
Retail
Investors:
Applicable
(b) Prohibition of sales to UK
Retail
Investors:
Applicable
(c) Prohibition of Sales to Belgian
Consumers:
Applicable
(d) Singapore Sales to Institutional
Investors and Accredited Investors
only:
Applicable
(e) Names of Joint Lead Managers: HSBC Bank plc
Merrill Lynch International
Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc
UBS AG London Branch
Wells Fargo Securities International Limited

6. REASONS FOR THE OFFER AND ESTIMATED NET PROCEEDS

(a) Reasons for the offer: See "Use of Proceeds"
in the Base Prospectus
(b) Estimated net proceeds: €497,825,000

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