The bank has appointed Destine Bailey as manager for the new branch. He is responsible for a team of seven locally employed banking professionals. They are able to offer service to customers in Chinese, Korean and Filipino as well as English.
The new branch features three teller stations, private consultation rooms and an ATM. It provides a full-range of financial services to both businesses and individuals including: mortgages, loans, wealth management and insurance.
The new branch will also offer Premier, HSBC’s global personal banking service, which provides worldwide support, a credit card, single relationship manager and Global View, a service which allows customers to access and manage all of their international accounts in one place, according to HSBC.
Dominic O’Hagan, HSBC’s west coast regional president, said: As ‘The world’s local bank,’ with a presence in 86 countries and territories, Seattle was the obvious place to focus our expansion efforts. Its large, internationally orientated community, global connectivity and expanding import/export sector all play exactly to HSBC’s strengths and make the city an excellent fit with our West Coast expansion strategy and HSBC’s global network.
