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HSBC Holdings plc

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HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational bank founded in 1865 in British Hong Kong as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, set up to finance trade between Europe, India and China. HSBC Holdings was created as its new parent company in 1991 and moved its headquarters to London in 1993, ahead of the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty to China. It is one of the largest banking and financial services groups in the world by assets, with a particularly large presence across Asia alongside Europe and the Americas.

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A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.

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