This is one for all the corporate experts like Nath, but does anyone know if there's ever been any mention of the HSBC banking group in any of the sourcebooks? As far as I can remember I don't they ever have but wanted to double check. Probably just stash them under the HKB umbrella or something if nothing else.

If you just mean an extreemely large holding bank, Zurich Orbital is right up your alley. (And you pocketbook)

Um, no, I was asking whether anyone knew if they'd ever mentioned the specific HSBC group in any of the sourcebooks since it's one of the largest banks in the world and I was thinking about using it in some things I was considering writing.

Just use them anyway, it's always fun to have your players aghast at what their RL bank is paying for some dirt on somebody

Hmm... Check the China\Hong Kong section in SOA. I have a vague recollection about large banks. I think it's part of Wuxing or maybe something like that.

I dont' recall a specific mention, but if there is one I'd lay £20 that its part of the PPG in its own right or part of a corp that is.

The problem is that I can't think of any PPG members that were big enough before Wuxing's expansion and jump up to have given the Japanese Mega's a run for their money, although I suppose Wuxing could be argued even though their roots seems a little jumbled in the early books. I'd be much more likely to expect someone like the PacRim Bank to - hostilely - take over the actual HSBC Bank from the central HSBC Holding company, with the other half gobbled up by people like the Swiss Bank Corporation or HKB since they apparently hoovered up a lot of the UK's and Europe's financial concerns when going double A rated.

That's assuming of course they get split up or taken over by someone else. As one of the largest banking groups in the world they'd be a pretty hard target to take over or try and dismember. *Shrug* Either way I guess.