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MassiveFajiit t1_j0ctizj wrote

Reply to comment by brokenelectricchair in HSBC to end funding for new oil and gas fields by esprit-de-lescalier

Drugs are in their DNA, they started as a bank to help with opium selling after the opium wars

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SuperJetShoes t1_j0jfqo6 wrote

Yup. British bank, Hong Kong-based.

Edit: Honk Hong

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MassiveFajiit t1_j0jgymc wrote

I think they technically have the HQ in the City especially after the handover of Hong Kong

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SuperJetShoes t1_j0jooai wrote

Very possibly. Back in the 70s it used to be in Leeds, just off City Square - a huge building, now a hotel. I remember it well, it was before they bought Midland Bank and they still went by the full name "Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation".

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