{"id":6901,"date":"2026-08-27T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:20:13","slug":"the-ascent-of-hsbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"The Ascent of HSBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HSBC is the UK&#8217;s largest banking group<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsbc.com\">https:\/\/www.hsbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"925\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-7.png 925w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-7-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-7-768x558.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-7-624x453.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Courtesy of Google Finance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/stock\/HSBA\/hsbc-holdings-plc\/company-page\">HSBC HOLDINGS PLC HSBA Stock | London Stock Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently it is worth \u00a3262 Billion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8.png 932w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8-768x331.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8-624x269.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Courtesy of The London Stock Exchange<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSBC is the UK&#8217;s largest banking group https:\/\/www.hsbc.com Courtesy of Google Finance HSBC HOLDINGS PLC HSBA Stock | London Stock Exchange Currently it is worth \u00a3262 Billion Courtesy of The London Stock Exchange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6904,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/6904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}