AsOf

HSBC · employees235,217

superseded: A later claim replaced it: it keeps its end date and a pointer to the claim that replaced it, and is never deleted.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Superseded: a later claim replaced it.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
2018-12-31
Valid until
2019-12-31
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_2FA26DDEAE93

Sources

“The number of employees expressed in full-time equivalent (‘FTE’) staff at 31 December 2018 was 235,217, an increase of 6,530 from 31 December 2017.”— what the page says, read 2026-11-09

Cite this claim

Each form names the value, its as-of date (2018-12-31), 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 The URL never changes: a superseded claim stays at the same address.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: 235,217", as of 2018-12-31 (until 2019-12-31). Claim clm_FBF7FFCE2380, https://asof.is/claim/clm_FBF7FFCE2380, accessed 2026-11-10. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089113/000162828019001584/livehsbcgroup20ffiling.htm.
APA
AsOf. (2018). HSBC employees: 235,217 (as of 2018-12-31 (until 2019-12-31)) [Record clm_FBF7FFCE2380]. Retrieved November 10, 2026, from https://asof.is/claim/clm_FBF7FFCE2380 (source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089113/000162828019001584/livehsbcgroup20ffiling.htm)
BibTeX
@misc{asof_clm_FBF7FFCE2380,
  author = {AsOf},
  title = {HSBC employees: 235,217},
  year = {2018},
  howpublished = {\url{https://asof.is/claim/clm_FBF7FFCE2380}},
  note = {Claim clm\_FBF7FFCE2380, as of 2018-12-31 (until 2019-12-31); source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089113/000162828019001584/livehsbcgroup20ffiling.htm},
  urldate = {2026-11-10}
}

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