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The strength of a leading international bank

Founded in 1865, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services groups.

HSBC Group

With assets of approximately USD 3,000 billion and operating in 58 countries and territories as at 31 December 2024, the HSBC Group is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services groups. It serves around 41 million customers and employs approximately 211,000 full-time equivalent staff.

Guided by its purpose of “opening up a world of opportunity”, HSBC aims to become the most trusted and preferred international financial partner.

In 2024, the HSBC Group’s products and services were organised into three business lines (Wealth and Personal Banking, Commercial Banking, and Global Banking and Markets).

Since 1 January 2025, and to accelerate the delivery of its strategic priorities, the HSBC Group has been organised around four new business divisions:

  • Hong Kong
  • United Kingdom
  • Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB)
  • International Wealth and Premier Banking (IWPB)

Learn more https://ww.hsbc.com/who-we-are

HSBC Continental Europe

HSBC Continental Europe, headquartered in Paris, is an indirect subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc.

Its mission is to serve continental European clients with their needs worldwide, and clients from other Group countries with their needs in continental Europe.

HSBC Continental Europe primarily comprises the activities of ten European branches (Germany, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Sweden) and two subsidiaries in continental Europe (Luxembourg and Malta).

The completion of the sale of the retail banking operations in France in January 2024 marked a key milestone in the transformation of HSBC Continental Europe and enables the bank to focus on its wholesale banking model. This includes corporate banking; banking, financing, investment, markets and securities custody services for corporate clients and financial institutions; as well as asset management and insurance, complemented by a targeted wealth management and private banking offering.

Learn more: About HSBC | HSBC France

Credit ratings

HSBC is one of the world’s highest-rated financial institutions, according to credit rating agencies.

Standard & Poor’s
Moody's
Fitch
HSBC Holdings Plc
A-
A3
A+
HSBC Continental Europe
A+
A1
AA-

Source : Groupe HSBC – as at 28 May 2025 Credit ratings | Fixed income investors| HSBC Holdings plc

Sources: HSBC Group – data as at end-December 2024.

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