The bank wants to help scale digital 'platform players', and is also offering $150m of venture debt to the Singapore market to provide financing to early-stage, high-growth companies backed by venture capital or private equity.
The integration of features such as distributed market infrastructure (DMI) technology from Calastone will also strengthen HSBC’s global ETF services with real-time connectivity to market updates.
In January, the government of Hong Kong announced Apac’s largest US dollar green bond issuance to date. It has since made headlines with other innovative green bond deals.