HSBC France Stake in French F

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HSBC Holdings PLC

23 October 2008

 



23 October 2008 

HSBC France to become a shareholder in new 

French financing company

HSBC France, as a member of the French banking community, together with the other major French banks and the French government, is to invest in a new financing company established at the direction of the French government to support the French economy.

The company will have issued share capital of €50m with each of BNPP, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, CNCE, Banques Populaires, Crédit Mutuel and HSBC France investing €4.8m for a 9.43 per cent shareholding, and the French government will take the remaining shareholding of 34.0 per cent.

HSBC France has no plans to participate in the French government's bank recapitalisation scheme. 

HSBC France is a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, one of the most strongly capitalised and liquid banks in the world. The HSBC Group has a tier one capital ratio of 8.8 per cent and a loan to deposit ratio of 90 per cent as at 30 June 2008.  HSBC France had a tier one ratio of 8.7 per cent at 30 June 2008.

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The HSBC Group 

HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. The Group serves customers worldwide from more than 9,500 offices in 85 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$2,547 billion at 30 June 2008, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the world's local bank'.

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