Tag: HSBC

September 6, 2023

Subject to approval by the New Zealand Overseas Investment Office, the deal is expected to close in late November, following which the pair will work towards a “smooth and efficient” transition for its customers. On completion, the acquired portfolio is […]

May 12, 2023

The SEC says both firms admitted its employees “often communicated off-channel” about securities business matters on personal devices and via messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, with neither firm maintaining a record of the “substantial majority” of those conversations. HSBC and […]

December 2, 2022

RBC will acquire 100% of the issued common equity of HSBC Canada. The firm will also buy all the preferred shares and the outstanding subordinated debt issued by HSBC Canada and held by the HSBC Group for an additional $1.5 […]

October 25, 2022

Elhedery will take on his new role from 1 January 2023, replacing Ewen Stevenson, who will be stepping down from the role of group CFO and executive director on 31 December and will leave HSBC in April next year. The […]

October 12, 2022

The bank says customers can now transfer data directly through an API from their accounting software package “with a few clicks”, and they also have the option to upload their data through a user interface (UI). Digital RF automatically generates […]

October 5, 2022

The past two years have seen more than a handful of banks based on other continents pull up the stakes on their foreign outposts. BBVA sold its U.S. footprint to PNC. HSBC spun off its U.S. branches to Citizens and […]

September 20, 2022

The fresh funding brings the total capital raised by Monese to $208 million and will be used to grow its cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business. Last year, Monese launched its PaaS business in a strategic partnership with Investec, which saw the […]

July 25, 2022

HSBC Holdings’ U.K. unit is planning to stop collecting data on the gender of its customers across some products as the bank pursues more inclusive services for nonbinary and trans people. The bank has begun removing references to gender in […]

April 1, 2022

Greg Hingston, who took over as global chief executive of HSBC Holdings Plc’s insurance unit in January, has had a busy quarter, closing the group’s first acquisition in a decade, building out the China business and eyeing new deals to […]

February 22, 2022

Buffalo, New York-based M&T Bank and Bridgeport, Connecticut-based People’s United Financial are extending the deadline to complete their merger until June 1, the banks announced Friday. The $7.6 billion deal, announced in February 2021, carried an initial cutoff date of […]

February 1, 2022

Recently, Wells Fargo, a leading financial services company, partnered with HSBC bank, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations, to benefit from its blockchain-based tools to settle foreign exchange transactions. After this agreement, Wells Fargo and HSBC Bank […]

December 21, 2021

The FCA claims HSBC’s transaction monitoring systems showed “serious weaknesses” over a period of eight years from March 2010 to March 2018. The regulator says HSBC did not dispute its findings and agreed to settle “at the earliest possible opportunity”. […]

November 4, 2021

Boteju spent almost 10 years at HSBC before leaving in October as its global head of data and analytics. Prior to that he also spent time at Standard Chartered, Commonwealth Bank of Australian, and Vodafone New Zealand. In a post […]

October 1, 2021

HSBC has hired former Google executive Aman Narain to lead its global commercial banking platforms. Narain, who describes himself as a “banker turned Googler”, spent four years at the Big Tech before leaving as global new payments ecosystems lead. His […]

September 3, 2021

Flint will formally take up his new position at the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) on 27 September. The bank aims to support regional growth through private and local government partnerships in order to finance a green industrial revolution in clean […]

May 28, 2021

HSBC has announced a “strategic withdrawal” from its US retail banking operations, selling chunks of its business as it continues to focus on Asia. In February, the first notes of a withdrawal sounded as HSBC said it planned “organic and […]

May 27, 2021

Pending regulatory approval, the deals with Citizens and Cathay are expected to close by the first quarter of 2022. The acquisition is slated to give Citizens Bank 800,000 new customer relationships and a foothold in several strategic markets, including the […]

April 27, 2021

HSBC shares jumped 2% after Europe’s largest lender by assets reported first-quarter pre-tax profit that beat estimates but reported revenue was down. Hong Kong-listed HSBC shares traded up 0.44% prior to the earnings release. The London-headquartered bank, which makes most […]

March 24, 2021

The bank launched Kinetic in beta in February 2020. Peter McIntyre, the bank’s small business banking head, recalls the soft launch. It commenced after one of his last meetings in the Waterloo WeWork before the UK went into lockdown. Prior […]

November 30, 2020

HSBC’s U.S. retail unit lost $518 million before taxes in the first three quarters of 2020 — a margin that has widened from $182 million in 2018 and $279 million last year, according to the Financial Times. A pullout would […]