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  • 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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