HSBC Bank Malta Plc

Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Dec 18, 2024

18 December 2024

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT

The following is a Company Announcement by HSBC Bank Malta p.l.c. (the "Bank") in compliance with the Capital Markets Rules issued by the Malta Financial Services Authority.

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Further to Company Announcement HSBC445, issued on 28 November 2024, the Bank announces that it will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") on 13 February 2025 (the "EGM Date") for the purposes of considering an Ordinary Resolution (Special Business). This Resolution is for the disclosure of information in connection with a potential transaction involving a Substantial Shareholding (as defined in Capital Markets Rule 5.174).

For the purposes of this EGM, a shareholders holding not less than 5% of the voting issued share capital of the Bank may:

• (a) request the Bank to include items on the agenda of the EGM; and
• (b) table draft resolutions for items included in the agenda of the EGM.

Any request to put items on the EGM or the draft resolution(s), as referred to above, should be submitted to the Bank in hard copy form at the following address: HSBC Bank Malta p.l.c., 116, Archbishop Street, Valletta VLT 1444 or in electronic form to companysecretarymalta@hsbc.com at least forty-six (46) days before the EGM Date (that is, by 29 December 2024), and shall be authenticated by the person or persons making it. The Bank shall not be obliged to entertain any requests by shareholders after 29 December 2024.

Further information related to the EGM will be announced at a later date.

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Dr Paula Mamo LL.D. Company Secretary