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27 Mar 2025

More than 4,000 delegates brought the energy – and our Global Investment Summit (GIS) provided the platform to explore the new networks shaping the global economy.

For three days in Hong Kong, the summit - the largest of its kind in Asia - was the super-connector for corporate, institutional and wealth clients seeking opportunities and insight into today's trends in trade, finance and technology.

Our Group CEO Georges Elhedery called out the GIS's power to bring people together for agenda-setting discussions, igniting new insights, firing imaginations and inspiring ideas.

Feel the energy and vibrancy at the Global Investment Summit (duration 2.55)

HSBC Global Investment Summit 2025

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Speakers:


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Sir Mark Tucker
Group Chairman, HSBC

[Sir Mark]

It is a pleasure and privilege to welcome you to our second Global Investment Summit.

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Georges Elhedery
Group CEO, HSBC

[Georges]

The Global Investment Summit is the largest of its kind here in Asia.

It's full of energy and vibrancy and it is building on 160 years of HSBC’s history of connecting our customers to opportunities around the world.

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Michael Roberts
CEO, HSBC Bank plc and CEO, Corporate Institutional Banking, HSBC

[Michael]

Today’s a big day for HSBC.

This summit really brings together all of the expertise, the insights, which really hugely benefits our clients, gives them a framework that really brings together different ways of thinking about connecting the world in the future.

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Surendra Rosha
Co-Chief Executive, Asia and Middle East, HSBC

[Surendra]

We have 7,000 1-on-1 meetings going on upstairs, which are our customers meeting with each other, identifying opportunities to do deals and get transactions done.

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Abdulfattah Sharaf
Chairman of the Board, HSBC Bank Middle East

[Abdulfattah]

The Global Investment Summit helps us find ideas and solutions.

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Amb. Charlene Barshefsky
Former US Trade Representative

[Ambassador Barshefsky]

Summits like this make me smarter, make me more aware of specific problems as well as solutions to them.

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Joe Tsai
CEO, Co-founder and Chairman, Alibaba Group

[Joe]

All in on AI.

Everything we do has to be infused with AI.

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Barry O'Byrne
Chief Executive International Wealth and Premier Banking, HSBC

[Barry]

This is all about insight, but beyond insight, it's about getting insight that can be actioned.

How do you use that insight to inform your wealth strategy, to inform the way you think about the world and how it's evolving?

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Peter Oey
Chief Financial Officer, Grab

[Peter]

You meet a diverse set of investors and that’s a rare opportunity because as a CFO of a company, one of my primary functions is to answer questions that they may have.

And it is just a great opportunity to really do it all in one place.

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Jean Hynes
CEO and Managing Partner, Wellington Management

[Jean]

I've heard so many specifics this week that give me more confidence about the future of this region.

I think it just gives you a whole other lens and perspective that gives you confidence in what to do going forward.

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Eric Francia
President and Chief Executive Officer, ACEN

[Eric]

Whenever there's something complex and difficult and not that straightforward, a conference like this - with a lot of diversity - would definitely be helpful to have a holistic and balanced view.

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Clara Chan
Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited

[Clara]

I love this summit because it brings together a great group of people who are very candid and have diverse perspectives for sharing.

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Pam Kaur
Group Chief Financial Officer, HSBC

[Pam]

Nobody connects the world better than HSBC.

It's at the heart of who we are and what we've been doing for the last 160 years.

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Diverse perspectives

Across panel and breakout sessions, featuring more than 70 international leaders and experts - along with more than 7,000 client meetings and engagements - the summit offered a diverse range of solutions, perspectives and knowledge from markets worldwide.

Our Group Chairman Sir Mark Tucker introduced the GIS with reflections on this year's theme - ‘New Networks Connecting the Global Economy’ - identifying great opportunities, as well as risks, and considering a significant reconfiguration of globalisation as we know it.

Georges identified five factors shaping new networks of finance and trade in his remarks; while Michael Roberts, CEO, HSBC Bank Plc, and CEO of Commercial and Institutional Banking, touched on the huge impact of AI on the corporate world, from the boardroom to the shop floor.

Later in the summit, International Wealth and Premier Banking CEO Barry O'Byrne addressed 460 clients at the GIS Private Wealth Sessions.

4,200
CLIENTS
Fact: 4,200 clients attended the summit.
7,300
MEETINGS
Fact: 7,300 client meetings and engagements took place.
156
JOURNALISTS
Fact: 156 journalists attended the summit from 41 media outlets.

Sparking debate

Other speakers included:

  • Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former US Trade Representative
  • Kumar Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
  • Bonnie Chan, CEO, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
  • Mario Draghi, former Italian Prime Minister and ex-President of the European Central Bank
  • Sir Niall Ferguson, historian, author, filmmaker and Managing Director, Greenmantle
  • Arvind Krisha, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM
  • The Rt Hon George Osborne, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Sanna Marin, former Prime Minister and Head of the Government of Finland
  • Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of Blackstone
  • Joe Tsai, Chairman, Alibaba Group

This was the second HSBC Global Investment Summit – an event launched in 2024 and built on the power of our international networks.

As Pam Kaur, our Group Chief Financial Officer, put it: “Nobody connects the world better than HSBC – it’s at the heart of who we are and what we’ve been doing for the last 160 years.”

HSBC Global Investment Summit

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