HSBC Sub-Custody and Clearing FAQs

Receive settlement and custody services for securities and fixed income instruments with the following standard components, as applicable:

• Application for foreign investment licences and new issues
• Corporate action reporting/administration
• Dividend and income collection
• Nominee and proxy services
• Receipt and delivery of securities
• Registration for scrip-based markets, safe custody, trade/portfolio/cash reporting
• Take-up of rights and bonus issues
• Contractual income and settlement services, foreign exchange and cash management
• Institutional fund services
• Local depository service programmes
• Stock-lending services

Yes, we help facilitate onshore securities lending and borrowing services where market regulations allow.

You will get services that suit your aims and operations through working directly with staff in each centre.

Get market information services that match the dynamism of the marketplace. Keep updated with market developments through our:

• Market Guide – a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the markets where we operate and the services we offer
• Market News Broadcasts – a newswire service sent directly to your desktop via e-mail or a live web alert
• Market Focus Advocacy – a quarterly summary of events and changes in the market, including in-depth feature articles on key topics of interest. We also include information on our lobbying efforts referred to as Market Movers, as well as a Calling Programme Calendar
• Newsbrief – a twice-daily summary of HSBC Market News Broadcasts, which provides a quick snapshot of broadcast traffic with focus on important news items
• Teleconference call – when major or time-sensitive developments occur in any market, you will also be advised immediately by phone on any urgent issue that may affect your accounts
• Website – provides the latest Market News Broadcasts and our Market Guide online, as well as a comprehensive guide to all the information regarding our services and branches

Take advantage of these exclusive value-added services found in the post-logon area of our website. In order to gain access to this area, you will need our global password, which you can get by contacting us. Once you have accessed the site for the first time, register by creating a unique password-protected profile, and update it at any time.

Experience full support for securities settlement, registration, corporate actions, cash settlement, remittances and reconciliation. As part of our in-house core banking system, our securities processing system and HSBCnet use a common platform, layouts and interface protocols that can communicate easily with other HSBC Group banking systems.

Use our system to place instructions or access your portfolio data through Hexagon, the HSBC Group's real-time electronic banking system. All our centres are integrated into the SWIFT network, allowing us to offer a range of MT500 message types.

Contact us for more information about our services.

Contact us for more information about our services.