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HSBC plans to cut 14,000 jobs to save up to $3 bn by 2016
16 May 2013
Since 2011, HSBC has closed or sold 52 non-strategic or underperforming businesses and achieved $4 billion in cost savings and generated double-digit loan growth in 15 priority markets
HSBC profits almost double to $8.43 billion
07 May 2013
HSBC withdraws from interest-only lending market
22 Mar 2013
HSBC Indian services PMI up to 57.5 in January
05 Feb 2013
HSBC Flash China PMI at two-year high
24 Jan 2013
HSBC chief takes swipe at previous management
12 Dec 2012
HSBC nears $1.8-bn deal to settle money-laundering charges
11 Dec 2012
The settlement by Europe’s biggest bank with US prosecutors is likely to come in the form of a deferred prosecution agreement, which would allow the London-based bank to avoid a formal indictment.
HSBC in talks to sell its 15.6 % stake worth $9 bn in China's Ping An Insurance
19 Nov 2012
HSBC, which has set aside $1.5 billion for fines it may have to pay as criminal charges in the ongoing US anti-money-laundering probe, has recently been selling some of its non-core assets around the globe
HSBC faces money laundering charges in Jersey
12 Nov 2012
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