Operating initially with a staff of six locally employed banking professionals, the Redmond branch will provide a full range of financial services to both businesses and individuals including Premier, HSBC’s global personal banking service. The new branch offers worldwide support, wealth management, insurance, mortgages, credit card, access to a relationship manager and ‘Global View,’ an online service which allows customers to access and manage all of their international Premier accounts in one place.

Kamal Pillay, branch manager, is a career banker with 10 years professional experience in and around the Seattle area. Mr Pillay and team are able to serve customers in Hindi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog and English.

Dominic O’Hagan, West coast regional president at HSBC Bank USA, said: “The city of Redmond, with its strong cross-border connections, made it the obvious place in which to enhance our Seattle area branch network. As ‘The world’s local bank’, we fully understand the importance of serving the Redmond community locally while helping them to make the most of opportunities globally.”