HSBC Holdings Plc, a London- and Hong Kong-listed banking behemoth with US$3 trillion in assets, is among the handful of truly global lenders. But its future as an international firm – a lynchpin of decades of trade between East and West – is increasingly dictated by politics, not the laws of free-market economics.
An eventual breakup of the company along regional lines shouldn’t take investors by surprise.
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