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Company announcement/wholesale

HSBC Innovation Banking launches in Singapore

HSBC announced the launch of HSBC Innovation Banking in Singapore, a dedicated proposition to further deepen its support to the innovation and venture ecosystem in Singapore and across the region.

31 October 2025

Company announcement/security

HSBC picks ValidiFI for account validation and risk detection

ValidiFI, Inc., a leader in predictive bank account and payment intelligence today announced that HSBC, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, has chosen ValidiFI's advanced account validation and risk detection solutions to enhance the integrity of bank accounts used to pay credit card balances.

27 October 2025

News/payments

HSBC and Juspay team on full-stack acquiring platform

HSBC has formed a partnership with payment orchestration platform Juspay to launch an acquiring platform tailored to the needs of digital-first, global merchants.

16 October 2025

News/startups

UK venture funding reaches multi-year high

Startups and scaleups based in the UK secured more than $9bn in venture capital funding in Q3, making it the second-highest quarterly funding total on record.

14 October 2025

Company announcement/payments

HSBC Digital Merchant Services launch in India and Singapore

HSBC today announced the launch of its Digital Merchant Services (DMS) in India and Singapore, extending its innovative payments platform supporting Digital Merchants and Marketplaces to two of Asia’s fastest-growing digital economies.

13 October 2025

News/Sibos

Sibos 2025: Banks urged to be modern, not modernised

In Frankfurt, Finextra’s own managing director Gary Wright led a conversation on how modernisation and innovation is reshaping the industry.

02 October 2025

Company announcement/payments

HSBC: Treasurers expect tokenisation to grow five-fold

Treasurers anticipate tokenisation, embedded payments and wallet-based solutions to increase fivefold over the next two years, as they embrace innovative payment models and digital assets in response to an evolving economic environment, according to new research by HSBC.

01 October 2025

Company announcement/security

MAS and banks shed light on quantum key distribution for secure financial communications

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in collaboration with DBS, HSBC, OCBC, UOB, SPTel and SpeQtral[1], has successfully completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) sandbox to evaluate the use of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)[2] for secure communications in the financial sector.

29 September 2025

News/payments

UK banks prep live pilot of tokenised sterling deposits

The UK's biggest banks are embarking on a pilot project to deliver the country's first live transactions of tokenised sterling deposits (GBTD).

29 September 2025

News/markets

HSBC demonstrates world’s first-known quantum-enabled algorithmic trading with IBM

HSBC is lauding the results of trials with IBM that tested the value of current quantum computers for algorithmic trading in the bond market

25 September 2025

Company announcement/payments

HSBC begins international roll out of tokenized deposit service

HSBC has expanded its Tokenised Deposit Service (TDS), an innovative blockchain-based solution that allows corporate clients to securely move currencies in real-time with instant 24/7 settlement, to support cross-border transactions.

23 September 2025

News/ai

HSBC Private Bank to equip client-facing staff with AI

HSBC Private Bank is to roll out OpenAI's Large Language Model to client facing staff, investment counsellors and product specialists to provide quality market insight and personalised investment strategies to high net worth customers.

17 September 2025