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Equities
The best venue for every trade
Cash equities
Take advantage of our global connections and strong research. HSBC's cash equities franchise operates from three primary trading hubs in London, New York and Hong Kong, plus emerging markets hubs in São Paulo and Dubai as well as a further 20 equity market dealing teams globally. In total, more than 600 sales, trading and research personnel located around the world fulfil the needs of the world's most sophisticated investors.
Delta One and Equity Finance
We offer a comprehensive range of Delta One products on a wide variety of stocks and indices to provide market access. Our emerging markets trading capabilities offer access to key markets across the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia (including China and India). We have over 20 currencies available for OTC and notes trading, and have a large inventory available. A broad range of products is offered, including swaps, contract for difference (CFDs), LEPOs, sector-linked products, listed and OTC dividend products, and market-making on futures and ETFs.
HSBC is an emerging markets secured financing specialist. Equity finance helps clients with long and short market access, treasury management, inventory optimisation, alpha generation and collateralised financing. We offer one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry, global coverage and competitive financing rates. Equity financing on a variety of underlyings, currencies, tenors and wrappers.
The extensive product suite of our Delta One and Equity Finance business is integrated into our Prime Services platform, which provides consolidated reporting, portfolio margining, and a dedicated client services representative.
Equity derivatives
We provide a full suite of equity derivative products for clients ranging from institutions and corporations to hedge funds and central banks, via 200 sales and trading professionals working out of 9 hubs. Get products ranging from vanilla to more complex solutions, including OTC and listed options strategies, and a range of variance-linked solutions.
We have a leading structured products platform.
Get futures trading across all time zones, and 24-hour desks in Hong Kong and Chicago. Our convertible bond sales and trading desk offers consistent capital commitment for clients in the secondary market. Our team is focused on providing liquidity to clients rather than proprietary trading. We offer execution on 100 per cent of the convertible bonds in Europe and Asia ex-Japan.
Recent awards won by Global Equities include:
- Winner: Borrower of the Year – Emerging Markets – GSL, The Securities Lending Awards 2011
- Global Retail Structured Products – Winner: Quality Leader; Share Leader, No.2 in market share – Greenwich Associates 2010
- US Retail Structured Products – Winner: Quality Leader; Share Leader, No.1 in market share – Greenwich Associates 2010
- Asian Retail Structured Products – Winner: Quality Leader; Share Leader, No.3 in market share – Greenwich Associates 2010
- Best Equity House in Hong Kong – FinanceAsia Country Awards for Achievement 2010
- No.5 Pan-European Brokerage Firm for European Small and Mid Caps (up from No.11 in 2010) – Extel Survey 2011
- No.6 Pan-European Brokerage Firm for Emerging EMEA (up from No.12 in 2010) – Extel Survey 2011
- No.7 Pan-European Brokerage Firm for Equity Sales – Extel Survey 2011
- Securitised Products Issuer of the Year: Börse Online 2010
- No.1 for Quality of Issuer, No.1 for Reverse Convertibles, No.1 for Innovation: Zertifikate Awards 2010