AsOf

HSBC · employees264,000

superseded: A later claim replaced it: it keeps its end date and a pointer to the claim that replaced it, and is never deleted.

What the statuses mean

Superseded: a later claim replaced it. It was the record's answer for the dates it held.

Valid from
2015-12-31
Valid until
2016-12-31
Published
no source on record carries a date
Recorded by AsOf
2026-11-08
Checked
2026-11-09 · its source page states the value and the date
Confidence
0.95
Replaced by
clm_52AA9622730E

Sources

“At 31 December 2017, HSBC had a total workforce of 229,000 full- and part-time employees compared with 241,000 at the end of 2016 and 264,000 at the end of 2015.”— what the page says, read 2026-11-09

Cite this claim

Each form names the value, its as-of date (2015-12-31), the day you read it (2026-11-10), the claim's stable URL and id and its primary source. The URL never changes: a superseded claim stays at the same address.

Plain text
AsOf. "HSBC employees: 264,000", as of 2015-12-31 (until 2016-12-31). Claim clm_BA9244AEB0F5, https://asof.is/claim/clm_BA9244AEB0F5, accessed 2026-11-10. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089113/000162828018001920/filing20flivegroupq42017doc.htm.
APA
AsOf. (2015). HSBC employees: 264,000 (as of 2015-12-31 (until 2016-12-31)) [Record clm_BA9244AEB0F5]. Retrieved November 10, 2026, from https://asof.is/claim/clm_BA9244AEB0F5 (source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089113/000162828018001920/filing20flivegroupq42017doc.htm)
BibTeX
@misc{asof_clm_BA9244AEB0F5,
  author = {AsOf},
  title = {HSBC employees: 264,000},
  year = {2015},
  howpublished = {\url{https://asof.is/claim/clm_BA9244AEB0F5}},
  note = {Claim clm\_BA9244AEB0F5, as of 2015-12-31 (until 2016-12-31); source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089113/000162828018001920/filing20flivegroupq42017doc.htm},
  urldate = {2026-11-10}
}

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