This letter is important and requires your immediate attention. If you are in doubt as to the action you should take you should seek advice from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent financial adviser. If you have sold or transferred all of your shares in the Fund referred to below, please pass this letter at once to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee as soon as possible.

Capitalised terms used herein and not defined shall have the meaning given to those terms in the Company's prospectus dated 13 December 2021.

This letter has not been reviewed by the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank"). The board of directors of the Company (the "Directors") accepts responsibility for the information contained in this document.

8 March 2022

HSBC ETFs plc (the "Company")

HSBC MSCI RUSSIA CAPPED UCITS ETF

(the "Fund")

ISIN: IE00B5LJZQ16

TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF DEALINGS NOTIFICATION

Dear Shareholder,

The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the secondary market exchange listings of HSBC MSCI Russia Capped UCITS ETF have been temporarily suspended by London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana, Deutsche Boerse and SIX Swiss Exchange until further notice. We continue to monitor the situation and Shareholders will be kept informed of any developments relating to the suspensions.

The temporary Suspensions of the secondary market listings have no effect on the determination of the Net Asset Value or the issue, redemption or exchange of Shares in any other sub-fund of the Company.

Yours sincerely,

Director

For and on behalf of HSBC ETFs plc

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