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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

News/wholesale

HSBC joins IBM's Quantum Accelerator programme

HSBC has joined forces with IBM on a three year project to explore the new frontiers of quantum technology.

29 March 2022

News/payments

Mastercard partners HSBC to bring new B2B payments option to the UK

Mastercard has partnered HSBC to launch a product in the UK that allows businesses to use their commercial card programme to make payments to any supplier, regardless of whether the supplier accepts card payments.

21 March 2022

News/crime

HSBC Ventures joins investment round in Silent Eight

AI-based financial crime compliance outfit Silent Eight has closed a $40m Series B funding round, which welcomed HSBC Ventures, the firm’s latest customer, as an investor.

16 March 2022