HSBC
HSBC
HSBC Holdings is a banking and financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the provision of a range of financial services including: personal, commercial, corporate, institutional, investment and private banking; trade services; cash management; treasury and capital market services; insurance; consumer and business finance; pension and investment fund management; trustee services; and securities and custody services.
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The bank successfully fought off a London court claim brought by investors over tax breaks linked to financing for 'Pirates of the Caribbean 2.'
April 26 -
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The bank admitted that it helped hundreds of American clients hide more than $1 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service and agreed to pay $192.4 million to resolve a decade-long U.S. tax investigation.
December 12 -
His boss pleaded guilty to helping wealthy clients hide assets worth at least 1.6 billion euros.
August 28 -
The former chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private bank pleaded guilty to helping wealthy clients hide assets worth at least 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) as French prosecutors flex their muscles to tackle white-collar crime.
August 7 -
HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private banking unit agreed to pay about 294 million euros ($329 million) to settle a Belgian criminal probe into allegations it helped wealthy clients dodge hundreds of millions of euros in taxes.
August 6 -
HSBC Holdings Plc’s auditors cautioned top executives that pressure to meet earnings targets gave managers an incentive to massage their numbers.
July 11 -
Bankers, athletes and celebrities are suing Ingenious Media Holdings Plc, saying that they were misled about investments in the film industry that were later branded tax avoidance by the U.K. government.
August 13 -
HSBC Holdings Plc said it could face penalties exceeding $1.5 billion stemming from multiple investigations into claims that its Swiss private bank unit helped clients evade paying taxes.
February 20
