HSBC

685 results about this entity

Period: 17 May 2007 - 29 Aug 2024

/wholesale

HSBC joins Bian

Bian, the independent not-for-profit, and HSBC today announce that the global bank has joined the organisation to help develop its IT architecture through the use of common standards.

/retail

HSBC to move 1200 UK call centre staff to permanent home working

HSBC is to move 1200 of its call centre staff to permanent working from home contracts, Reuters reports.

/markets

Kuwait Clearing Company signs Citi and HSBC to e-Dividends service

Kuwait Clearing Company signed two new agreements with Citi Bank and HSBC to provide the e-dividends service to their clients.

/sustainable

HSBC joins the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials

HSBC has joined the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) to help the bank measure and disclose its financed emissions as it works to achieve its net zero ambition.

/payments

HSBC launches mobile business bank for UK SMEs

HSBC has launched a mobile banking offshoot, Kinetic, to cater to the needs of the UK business community.

/cloud

HSBC taps Google Cloud for call centre AI

HSBC has enlisted Google Cloud to build a global call centre AI chatbot that helps employees cut down on the time they spend on manually intensive queries.

/people

Former HSBC innovation chief Balkin joins JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co has hired former HSBC executive Jeremy Balkin as head of fintech and innovation for wholesale payments, Reuters reports.

/inclusion

HSBC launches programme to help customers go digital

As it closes branches and Covid-19 hastens the move to digital channels, HSBC has launched an education programme to help customers make the transition to online and mobile banking.

/cloud

HSBC shifts R3 Corda to Google Cloud

HSBC has become the first bank to start using R3's Corda enterprise blockchain network on Google Cloud.

/people

Ex-HSBC innovation exec Diana Biggs joins digital assets startup Valour

Swiss digital asset startup Valour has appointed the former global head of innovation at HSBC Private Banking, Diana Biggs, as its CEO.

/retail

HSBC UK increases gambling block cooling off period to 72-hours

With lockdown causing an increase in gambling, HSBC UK and first direct have today announced an increased cooling off period to their gambling block feature, from 24 hours to 72 hours.

/devops

Open Banking year three: Insights from the CMA9

The UK banking industry had its hands full in 2020 as institutions had to respond to lockdowns and other restrictions on business activity designed to curb the spread of Covid-19. What effect did this have on the ongoing adoption of Open Banking? In Finextra’s annual review, we look at how Open Banking has grown, what still needs to improve and what will happen next.