finance.foundation / Banks / HSBC
Bank · Universal bank
HSBC
Europe's largest bank by assets; pivoting toward Asia and wealth.
- Type
- Universal bank
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
- G-SIB designation
- Yes — on the Financial Stability Board’s list of global systemically important banks (the FSB republishes it each November)
- Total assets ≈
- $3.0tn (approx., as of Q2 2026 · our seed dataset seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30, sources)
- Listed parent
- HSBC
- LEI
- MP6I5ZYZBEU3UXPYFY54 ISO 17442 — the operating bank
- BIC
- 4 head-office BICs are registered in the entity's own country and nothing in the standard decides between them, so this is left empty rather than guessed: HSBCGB3AXXX, MIDLGB22XXX, MIDLGB2BXXX, MIDLGBZ1XXX
- Infrastructure profile
- banking.foundation/banks/hsbc (regulators, licensing, rails)
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
# this page as data
GET https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/hsbc-bank
JSONCSV No key, CORS enabled — paste any of these straight into a notebook.
Code to fetch it
curl
curl -s https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/hsbc-bank
Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/hsbc-bank", timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
JavaScript
const r = await fetch("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/hsbc-bank");
if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.status);
const data = await r.json();
pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/hsbc-bank.csv")