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
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. It expanded in the Midlands, absorbing many local banks, and merged with the Central Bank of London Ltd. in 1891, becoming the London City and Midland Bank.
Former head office at 27 Poultry, designed in 1924 by Edwin Lutyens and built in stages until 1939
Midland Bank's head office banking hall at 27 Poultry, built in the late 1920s
Former Threadneedle Street head office of The City Bank, which became London City and Midland Bank
The Lutyens-designed 100 King Street, Manchester
