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HSBC to run fintech education course for employees

HSBC is to put thousands of its employees through a bespoke training course in the latest fintech developments in a partnership with the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School

10 June 2022

News/startups

HSBC kills off trade platform Serai

HSBC has pulled the plug on Serai, the Hong Kong-based trade platform it launched three years ago, citing a failure to build a commercially viable business.

09 June 2022

News/people

Ex-HSBC colleagues reunite to solve global data governance headache

HSBC’s former global data analytics boss Jon Farina has joined WCKD RZR, a 'data enablement' software startup founded by the bank's ex-chief administration officer.

13 May 2022

Company announcement/startups

HSBC opens $1 billion lending fund for female entrepreneurs

HSBC today announces the launch of a Female Entrepreneur Fund (“Fund”), which will provide US$1bn in lending to female-owned businesses over the next 12 months.

12 May 2022

Research

The Future of Digital Identity 2022

06 May 2022 1077 downloads

Company announcement/people

HSBC appoints new global trade and receivables finance head

HSBC has appointed Vivek Ramachandran as Head of Global Trade and Receivables Finance (GTRF), with immediate effect.

05 May 2022

Company announcement/wholesale

GSBN develops proof-of-concept for two blockchain-based trade finance products

Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), an independent, not-for-profit technology consortium building a blockchain-enabled operating system designed to redefine global trade, today announced that its Trade Finance Advisory Group has reached a new milestone, with its first proofs-of-concepts for trade finance products since its inception in September last year.

04 May 2022

Company announcement/regulation

CMA writes to HSBC about open banking API breaches

Letter to HSBC UK about 11 breaches of Part 2, 8 and 10 of the Retail Banking Market Investigation Order 2017.

28 April 2022

Finextra TV/payments

Banking as a Service is gaining unstoppable momentum

Margaret Franco, CMO, Finastra & Craig Ramsay, HSBC Global Head of Innovation and Partnerships, Global Liquidity and Cash Management share their outlook for BaaS in 2022 and beyond, and discuss the unstoppable momentum that is being gained.

20 April 2022

News/wealth

HSBC launches metaverse investment fund

HSBC is launching a metaverse investment fund to give high net worth clients in Asia a chance to get in on the ground floor of the emerging digital economy.

06 April 2022

News/startups

IFGS 2022: Are fintechs biting off more than they can chew?

Molten VC’s and moderator for IFGS session ‘Chomping on the (uni)(deca)corn’ Bindi Karia set the scene with some striking statistics around investment in the UK and global fintech industry.

04 April 2022

Company announcement/regulation

HSBC chided by CMA over breaching SME business lending rules

In 2002, HSBC Bank plc, among others, agreed that they would no longer (except for in specific circumstances) make a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customer open or maintain a business current account in order to get a business loan.

30 March 2022