{"id":224966,"date":"2016-02-15T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=224966"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:53:47","slug":"hsbc-keeps-hq-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/hsbc-keeps-hq-london\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC keeps HQ in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Europe\u2019s biggest bank HSBC announced on Monday that it has decided to keep its headquarters in London.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bank through a unanimous vote by its board has also rejected the option of shifting its centre of gravity back to main profit-generating hub Hong Kong after a 10-month review.<\/p>\n<p>This has now given a boost to London&#8217;s status as a global financial centre.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver has warned that the bank could not stick with the status quo were Britain to vote in favour of leaving the European Union in a promised referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Gulliver said around 1,000 employees will be moved from London to Paris if Britain votes to leave the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to stay in London comes after a tumultuous period for European banks, whose shares have tumbled on fears of a global economic slowdown and the impact on earnings from a prolonged period of low or negative interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/15\/450478\/HSBC-keeps-HQ-in-London\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s biggest bank HSBC announced on Monday that it has decided to keep its headquarters in London.\u00a0 The bank through a unanimous vote by its board has also rejected the option of shifting its centre of gravity back to main profit-generating hub Hong Kong after a 10-month review. This has now given a boost to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}