Securities Services

Securities Services

Ready to unlock new global opportunities?
As a leading Securities Services provider, we can help you invest throughout East and West trade corridors, wherever is next

Don’t settle for a bird’s eye view when you have experts on the ground

We strive to provide exceptional client experience, enabling our clients to protect and grow their assets, focus on their business, and maximize opportunities in diverse, global markets. We do this through three core pillars.

Products and Services

Whether your objectives include improving costs and efficiencies, providing a better client experience, expanding into new markets or focusing on new businesses like wealth management, investments or digital assets, we will help keep you ahead.

Scale and Network

As part of Europe’s largest bank, and one of the largest international banks in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, we can provide you with access to local ecosystems. And as one of the largest global securities services providers, we help you unlock your global potential with an extensive global network that connects you to opportunities in local markets.

Data and Digital Transformation

We help you advance your business by driving growth and value creation through data and digital transformation, delivering benefits and scalability through future-ready services and infrastructure.

Your experts on the ground

  • Frictionless operations

    Benefit from integrated services customized to the needs of leading banks, broker dealers, and institutional investors. With real-time transaction processing, full visibility and control across private assets and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and instant insights across your investment portfolio.
  • Fully-connected product suite

    Get complete access to HSBC’s global banking services, bringing local markets and product expertise to your door. Access foreign exchange (FX), securities lending, yield enhancement products, credit, cash and payments solutions and more. Our global custody and funds services operates across multiple markets, helping grow your assets on a global scale.
  • Data-driven client experience

    Benefit from customizable data analytics and reporting, with instructions and data delivery options accessible where and how you want. Our common data solutions and architecture ensure a consistent, seamless client experience. With support across channels including our HSBC Evolve platform, including the Data Studio application, as well as APIs, and SWIFT.
  • Seamless access to digital assets

    Experience the future of capital markets with our digital assets platform, HSBC Orion, for frictionless digital securities issuance and settlement.

Fiona Horsewill

Global Head of Securities Services, HSBC

Your growth ambitions drive our commitment to excellence. At HSBC Securities Services, we are dedicated to empowering your journey by unlocking global opportunities and providing a frictionless client experience.

Our Solutions

We help you access financial markets and liquidity while unlocking investment opportunities and managing risk – all while transacting seamlessly across traditional and new asset types.

Custody

Our Custody service provides clients with a robust framework for asset protection and operational excellence. With global coverage and expert support teams in key locations, we empower clients to navigate complex markets with confidence. Our proprietary local network brings you strong advocacy to help you navigate regulatory and geopolitical challenges. Additionally, our commitment to innovation and technology means clients benefit from solutions that streamline processes and improve data quality, ultimately driving better investment outcomes.

Fund Services

Our team of specialists supports you with one of the world’s largest fund services networks, backed by our global presence and strategic focus on emerging markets. From fund accounting and valuation, to securities lending and foreign currency exchange, to cash management – we’ll use our sophisticated traditional and alternative fund services to design a solution specific to your objectives.

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

Our ETF services seamlessly coordinate fund activities across the entire ETF ecosystem, from index creation and issuance, to trading and liquidity, and through to custody and fund administration, enabling efficient operations and faster time-to-market with expert guidance throughout the journey.

Private Assets

HSBC’s dedicated team of private assets specialists provides you with support throughout the investment lifecycle. As a Financial Sponsor, you can benefit from fund administration services to help you manage your investments into private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure. As an Asset Owner, our technology can help automate your private assets’ investment processing and provide you with consolidated reporting across public and private markets.

Securities Lending

Our Securities Lending service provides you with enhanced liquidity and flexibility, helping optimize your investment strategies. By facilitating the lending of securities, clients can generate additional income from their portfolios while maintaining control over their assets. Our extensive global network and expertise ensure efficient execution and risk management, helping you to navigate market fluctuations with confidence. Unlock the full potential of your investments while benefiting from HSBC's robust risk management and distribution framework.

Awards and Press Releases

2025

HFM European Services Awards

  • Best outsourced provider

2024

Asian Investor Asset Management Awards 2024

  • Best Asset Service Provider of the Year
  • Best Fund Administrator
  • Best Digital Asset Service Provider

The Asset Triple A Sustainable Investing Awards 2024

  • Best in Asset Servicing
  • Best Custodian - Overall
  • Best ETF Custodian

Global Custodian - Leaders in Custody Asia Awards 2024

  • Editor's Choice: Digital Asset/ DLT initiative of the year - HSBC Orion

Eastspring Investments chooses HSBC's Middle Office Services using Blackrock's Aladdin Platform

MENA ETFs – a region full of potential

ETFs in the MENA region are on track for strong growth, as the region’s asset management industry broadens its offering to better meet the increasingly diverse needs of local investors.

Perspectives: Investment in China

Yimei Li, CEO, China Asset Management Co. joins Tian Lu, CEO, HSBC Qianhai Securities, for a discussion about China’s investment landscape, against a backdrop of trade tensions and economic headwinds. They discuss the macro outlook for China and government policy support, developments across the Mainland-Hong Kong Connect schemes, China’s innovation economy, and the growth of exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Insights

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