Crédit Commercial de France
The Crédit Commercial de France is a commercial bank in France, founded in 1894 as the Banque Suisse et Française and renamed to CCF in 1917. By the end of the 1920s, it had grown to be the sixth-largest bank in France. Its brand was eclipsed between 2005 and 2022 under HSBC ownership, but is set to be revived by the bank's new owner Cerberus Capital Management.
Head office of CCF, then HSBC France from 1922 to 2020 at 103, Champs Elysées in Paris
First head office of BSF at 27, rue Laffitte in Paris
Head office of BSF, then of CCF from 1908 to 1922 at 20, rue La Fayette in Paris
Detail of former CCF head office building at 20, rue Lafayette
HSBC Holdings plc is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint. It is the largest Europe-based bank by total assets, ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$2.919 trillion as of December 2023. In 2021, HSBC had $10.8 trillion in assets under custody (AUC) and $4.9 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).
Headquarters at 8 Canada Square in Canary Wharf, London
Wardley House on the Hong Kong Praya (waterfront), where the bank had leased its first Hong Kong office in 1865
Former Shanghai Club building on No. 12 Bund, Shanghai, purchased by HSBC in 1874 and its Shanghai head office until reconstruction in the early 1920s
The same building (center right) following the Praya Reclamation Scheme and creation of Statue Square
