HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc

HSBC Holdings plc serves over 128 million customers worldwide through around 10,000 offices in 83 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of some US$2,354 billion at 31 December 2007, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as ‘the world’s local bank’.

HSBC and sustainability
Sustainability is at the heart of HSBC's long term strategy and we aim to ensure that sustainable business principles permeate every level of our business and culture.

As a bank, we are focused on achieving long-term profit growth, building enduring customer relationships and making a positive contribution to the environment and the communities in which we operate.

As a major employer, lender and investor, we can make an important contribution to sustainability, providing financial solutions to environmental and social challenges whilst building a healthy business for the benefit of all of our stakeholders.

We do this by managing our own environmental and social impacts and the indirect impacts we have on society, through our lending and investment activities.