HSBC Holdings

HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational banking and financial services organisation headquartered in London. Founded in 1865, it provides banking services to individual customers, businesses and institutional clients worldwide, serving more than 40 million customers through more than 140 offices in over 50 countries and territories. Its operations are organised into four global businesses.

Those businesses are Retail Banking and Wealth Management, serving individual savers and investors; Commercial Banking, for business customers; Global Banking and Markets, providing banking and markets services to large corporations and institutional clients; and Global Private Banking, for high-net-worth individuals. The group's stated areas of work include wealth management, international trade finance and cross-border financial services.

HSBC's stated purpose is to "open up a world of opportunity", with a focus on connecting customers to what matter most to them, facilitating international trade, supporting wealth creation and enabling cross-border financial goals. The client base ranges from individual savers to the world's largest corporations and governments. The combination of a multi-jurisdictional footprint and activities spanning retail, commercial, investment and private banking places the group within a range of regulatory regimes across its countries of operation.

Further information is available at https://hsbc.com/.