What sets us apart

We were created to serve global interconnectivity. For more than 160 years, we’ve helped facilitate trade and investment between Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas – and we continue to do this today.

Customers require a financial partner with global reach, the ability to navigate complexity, a strong balance sheet and the judgement to manage risk responsibly.

That’s what sets HSBC apart: we connect capital to ambition – enabling trade, supporting investment, and helping businesses and families secure their futures.

We strive to do this by:

Putting customers at the heart of everything we do

We want to be the most trusted bank globally – we earn that trust by keeping our customers connected, protected and moving forward across borders and through economic cycles.

We’re making HSBC simple, agile, and more responsive to the rapidly evolving needs of our customers.

At the core of this is a culture where every colleague is focused on the customer and on finding ways to simplify their work, to have greater impact.

Fact: we opened for business in Hong Kong in 1865
Fact: we serve around 41 million customers around the world
Fact: we operate in 56 markets

Connecting clients to global growth

Powerful structural forces are reshaping the global economy. The world is being rewired. New flows. New connections. New opportunities.

Our international network provides local depth and global reach. We connect our clients across markets, helping them trade, invest and grow and manage risk internationally.

Our scale emphasises the advantages of international connectivity at a time when new regions are rising, new intra-regional corridors are emerging, and new technologies are facilitating growth.

Fact: we were named number one Global Trade Finance Provider for Corporates in the Euromoney Trade Finance Survey for the ninth year running.
Fact: In 2005, 86% of world trade conducted in 2025 was in markets where we have a presence
Fact: HSBC processed 500 trillion US dollars in payment transactions in 2025 – equivalent to 1 billion US dollars a minute

Explore more: ‘We’re there in the moments that matter for our customers’.

Embracing new technologies

Technology is a core enabler of HSBC’s global strategy, and it’s how we’ll help our colleagues and customers thrive in the next era of global finance.

We’re empowering our colleagues with AI to create a personalised experience for each customer – delivered safely, in real-time and at scale – with human judgement and accountability at the core.

We’re modernising platforms so we can deliver services that are simple to use and improve our customers’ experience – and we’re advancing digital finance to make banking frictionless and always on.

Fact: About 45,000 HSBC engineers are using an AI-enabled coding assistant, as of August 2026.
Fact: We have 600 AI use cases in areas including fraud detection, cybersecurity, transaction monitoring, customer service and risk assessment.
Fact: Ninety-five per cent of colleagues – comprising all colleagues who have a business requirement to use AI – have access to generative AI tools.

Explore more: HSBC and Google Cloud announce transformative AI banking partnership.

Empowering entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs do not just build businesses – they build the future, often across borders, sectors and life stages.

They need more than a loan; they need a bank that can support them from start-up to scale-up to international growth, and then through liquidity events and wealth planning.

HSBC is built to match that ambition, combining the reach and resilience of a global bank with specialist support for start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs, and the ability to connect business and personal wealth needs as they evolve.

Fact: HSBC Innovation Banking operates in 10 venture capital and innovation hubs in 2026.
Fact: Two out of three HSBC Private Bank clients in Hong Kong are business founders.
Fact: More than 15,000 entrepreneurs in India are supported through HSBC initiatives.

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Shaping the future of wealth

From 2025-2030, an estimated $124 trillion of new financial wealth will be created globally, with almost one third (32%) of that growth occurring in Asia.

In a crowded wealth market, our differentiator is clear: we connect markets across the world, linking where wealth is being created with where it is being invested, protected and passed on.

Through one joined-up relationship, clients can plan, invest, protect, borrow and transfer wealth across markets and generations.

We’re the leading wealth manager in Asia, where wealth creation is accelerating.

Fact: We have about 5 million Premier customers, as of the first half of 2026.
Fact: There are 72 dedicated HSBC Wealth Centres worldwide, as of the first half of 2026.
Fact: HSBC held 1.6 trillion US dollars in wealth balances, as of the first half of 2026.

Our strategy and values

We’re here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our customers.

Our customers

Our ambition is to be the most trusted bank globally, putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

Our markets

HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. Find out more about our worldwide operations.

HSBC and Digital

We develop and deploy some of the industry’s most advanced and innovative technology to make your banking easier and more secure.