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HSBC Restricts Personal Trading by Traders

July 17, 2017

HSBC Holdings, which employees over 200,000 employees worldwide, has told about 6,000 employees of its global markets division that they are prohibited from purchasing single-name securities and concentrated ETFs in their personal accounts.

 

Employees will be permitted to maintain existing holdings of securities prohibited by the new rules, though sales must be pre-approved by compliance personnel. Since the start of the year, HSBC has hired 1,800 extra compliance staff, bringing its total compliance staff to more than 6,000.

 

RESTRICTIONS AT OTHER BIG BANKS.    HSBC wouldn’t be the first big bank, and it won’t be the last, to restrict personal trading in order to combat potential conflicts of interest.

 

  • Goldman Sachs bars investment bankers from trading individual stocks and bonds.
  • JPMorgan bans “speculative and other short-term investment activity” or the purchase of securities of a client.
  • Deutsche Bank requires managerial approval for trades in personal accounts.