With HSBC threatening to move its headquarters out of London, one city comes to mind as its potential new home: Hong Kong, the “H in its name.

就在汇丰银行威胁要将总部搬离伦敦之际，一座城市被人们认为可能会成为它的新家：香港。汇丰银行(HSBC)名字里的H就代表的正是它。

Set up in 1865 and headquartered in both then-British colony Hong Kong and China’s financial center Shanghai as the bank that greased the wheels of British trade, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. moved its headquarters to London in 1993 after it bought one of the U.K.’s top retail banks in the early 1990s.

汇丰银行于1865年成立，总部位于当时的英国殖民地香港和中国的金融中心上海。它促进了英国贸易。90年代初，汇丰银行收购了英国最大的零售银行，并于1993年将总部搬到伦敦。

Its acquisition of Midland Bank, which had retail branches in almost every British city at that time, lifted the bank’s U.K earnings.

米特兰银行几乎在英国的每个城市都有分行。收购该银行使得汇丰在英国的收益得到大幅提升。

But Hong Kong remains the source of the biggest chunk of profits at the bank founded by Thomas Sutherland, a Scot, 150 years ago. Last year it made up 44% of the global bank’s pre-tax profit of US$18.7 billion, while the U.K. recorded a US$56 million pre-tax loss.

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