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Fast facts
- HSBC has 128 million customers around the world across its 4 Customer Groups;
- HSBC has 125 million personal customers worldwide
Please note figures are rounded
- The breakdown by customer group and global business is:
Number of customers Personal Financial Services 125m Commercial Banking 2.8m Global Banking and Markets 4,193 Private Banking 95,944
- HSBC has around 10,000 offices in 83 countries and territories
- 25 million of our customers have registered for internet banking;
- We have over 330,000 staff in 83 countries and territories, including:
Number of Staff United Kingdom 56,700 United States of America 43,000 India 33,000 Hong Kong 29,000 Brazil 27,000 Mexico 23,000 France 15,000
- And we have over 210,000 holders of record of our ordinary shares;
- In February 2008, HSBC was named the world's most valuable banking brand according to The Banker magazine's Top 500 Financial Brand Listing.
- Whilst HSBC's lead regulator is the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom, our businesses around the world are regulated and supervised by approximately 510 central banks and regulatory authorities;
- HSBC’s earnings are diversified geographically and by Customer Group:
Geographical Contribution* Europe 35.5% Hong Kong 30.3% Rest of Asia Pacific 24.8% Latin America 9.0% North America 0.4%
Customer Group contribution* Commercial Banking 29.5% Global Banking and Markets 25.3% Personal Financial Services 24.4% Private Banking 6.2% Other 14.6% (*Pretax profit for the year ended 31 December 2007)
- HSBC's dividend has grown at a compound annual rate of 17.3% over the last 15 years;
- Over the same period the total return to shareholders has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 28.5% - or stated in simpler terms, £100 invested in HSBC on 31 December 1990 would have been worth £4,281 at the end of 2005.
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