Redemption at the Option of the Issuer and Exercise of Issuer's Options

(i) If Issuer Call is provided hereon, the Issuer may (with the permission of, or waiver from, the Relevant Regulator if required), on giving not less than 15 nor more than 30 days' notice to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 13 (which notice shall be irrevocable), redeem, or exercise any Issuer's option in relation to, all or, if so provided, some of the Notes in the principal amount or integral multiples thereof and on the date or dates so provided. Any such redemption of Notes shall be at their Call Option Redemption Amount (together with any interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption).

Optional Redemption Date(s): 14 May 2027

Clean-up redemption at the option of the Issuer

(i) If Clean-up Call is specified hereon and if the Clean-up Call Threshold or more of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes originally issued (and, for these purposes, any further securities issued pursuant to Condition 12 will be deemed to have been originally issued) has been redeemed and/or purchased and cancelled, then the Issuer may (with the permission of, or waiver from, the Relevant Regulator if required), at its option (without any requirement for the consent or approval of the Noteholders), and having given not less than 15 nor more than 30 days' notice to the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar and, in accordance with Condition 13, the Noteholders (which notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the date fixed for redemption), redeem all (but not only some) of the Notes on, or at any time after, the Clean-up Call Optional Redemption Date specified hereon. Any such redemption of Notes shall be at their Call Option Redemption Amount (together with any interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption).

Clean-up Call Threshold: 75 per cent.

Redemption of Senior Notes at the option of the Issuer due to Loss Absorption Disqualification Event

(i) If the Notes are not Section 3(a)(2) Notes, if Loss Absorption Disqualification Event Call is specified hereon and if immediately prior to the giving of the notice referred to below a Loss Absorption Disqualification Event has occurred and is continuing, then the Issuer may (with the permission of, or waiver from, the Relevant Regulator if required) redeem the Senior Notes in whole, but not in part, on any Interest Payment Date or, if so specified hereon, at any time, on giving not less than 15 nor more than 30 days' notice to the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 13 (which notice shall be irrevocable), at their Early Redemption Amount (together with any interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption).

"Loss Absorption Regulations" means, at any time, the laws, regulations, requirements, guidelines, rules, standards and policies from time to time relating to minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities and/or loss absorbing capacity instruments in effect in the United Kingdom and applicable to the Issuer from time to time (whether or not such requirements, guidelines or policies are applied generally or specifically to the Issuer or to the Issuer and any Holding Company or Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Subsidiary of any such Holding Company).