• October 10 2025
  Banks

  HSBC’s Elhedery bets $13.6bn on Hong Kong’s revival

  Deal comes as Hang Seng Bank has been badly exposed to the territory’s property downturn

  
• October 9 2025
  Lex

  HSBC’s takeover of Hang Seng is a sign of deals to come

  The combination should be worthwhile if it creates cost savings

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• October 9 2025
  HSBC offers $13.6bn for 100% control of Hong Kong lender Hang Seng

  Shares fall 7% after Europe’s biggest lender says it will halt buybacks to fund buyout of majority-owned unit

  
• October 5 2025
  Food & Beverage

  Hong Kong’s bottled tea leader tests tastes in response to China’s fresh-brew trend

  Vitasoy seeks to innovate with flavours such as ‘fragrant duck poo’ to win over young consumers

  
• October 1 2025
  Due Diligence

  The trillion-dollar deal boom

  Plus, the opportunistic investor buying up UK high street retailers and HSBC’s succession troubles

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• September 29 2025
  Banks

  HSBC chair’s exit leaves Europe’s biggest bank with a leadership vacuum

  Succession search drags on as Mark Tucker exits for AIA

  
• September 25 2025
  HSBC claims quantum trading breakthrough

  Europe’s largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data

  
• August 24 2025
  Money laundering

  HSBC’s Swiss unit culls wealthy Middle East clients amid regulator scrutiny

  Watchdog previously barred bank from taking on high-risk customers over lax anti-money laundering checks

  
• August 11 2025
  HSBC flags 73% of Hong Kong commercial property loans as risky

  Prolonged slump in retail spending and sluggish office demand put Europe’s largest lender on notice

  
• August 8 2025
  Canary Wharf Group PLC

  HSBC reverses plan to completely quit Canary Wharf

  Lender signs 15-year lease for an office minutes from the bank’s Docklands base that it plans to vacate in 2027

  
• August 1 2025
  Investments

  Stockpickers: Hedging helps banks dispel memories of financial crisis

  But fears persist of tax raid later in the year

  
• July 31 2025
  Lex

  China has done HSBC a backhanded favour

  It may be an elegant way for the bank to start stepping back from an investment that no longer looks so compelling

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• July 31 2025
  FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

  Making sense of a wonky GDP reading

  US GDP grew at an annualised rate of 3% in the second quarter amid huge swings in imports

  
• July 30 2025
  HSBC profits slide 29% on hit from China and restructuring

  Second-quarter earnings miss forecasts as Europe’s largest bank pursues overhaul

  
• July 25 2025
  Lex

  Why is it so hard to replace HSBC’s Mark Tucker?

  The years of a FTSE 100 chairmanship being a nice way to avoid boredom in semi-retirement are long gone

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• July 22 2025
  LexClimate change

  Why getting to net zero will take more than peer pressure

  Either governments will need to spearhead decarbonisation or markets will have to take over in the main

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• July 22 2025
  Due Diligence

  BP and HSBC’s waiting game

  Plus, private capital’s next big insurance play and Wise co-founders do battle

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• July 19 2025
  UK banks

  HSBC renews search for chair after struggling to find suitable candidates

  Europe’s largest lender is looking for more names amid slow progress in replacing Sir Mark Tucker

  
• July 17 2025
  Forex trading probes

  Ex-HSBC currencies chief gets fraud conviction thrown out

  Appeals court overturns verdict after US Supreme Court invalidated a key legal theory used to convict him

  
• July 15 2025
  Net-Zero Banking Alliance

  Banking climate alliance battles to retain big European lenders

  Barclays and UBS refuse to commit to Net-Zero Banking Alliance following HSBC’s exit despite softening of rules

  
• June 25 2025
  Due Diligence

  Is HSBC too big to manage?

  Plus, the big potential tax break for private credit firms and the complex sport of dealmaking among Italian banks

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• June 25 2025
  The Big Read

  Can HSBC cut its way to growth?

  The bank’s latest reorganisation has arguably left it with few options to boost revenue as it faces trade tariffs and lower interest rates

  
• June 18 2025
  HSBC considers ordering all staff back to office 3 days a week

  Bank seeking to impose unified approach on sprawling global workforce

  
• June 11 2025
  European banks

  European banks spend €1.1bn axing senior staff

  Largest single severance payment of €11.2mn in pool split between 2,100 staff at seven banks since 2018

  
• June 6 2025
  HSBC’s Mark Tucker to return to insurer AIA as chair

  Brendan Nelson to take over as interim head of UK bank’s board

  

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