Sources: banks including Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC began selling an extra $8.2B of short-term loans to help Netflix fund its WBD purchase (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/banks-selling-8…
Hong Kong-based WeLab, which operates two digital banks in Hong Kong and Indonesia, raised $220M in equity and debt from HSBC, Prudential Hong Kong, and others (Denise Wee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot
India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technolo…
“NPR’s board members were excited in the fall of 2023 when they found Ms. Maher. She had worked for the World Bank and HSBC. As the chief executive of the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, she oversaw a sprawling, complicated community of volunteer editors. And she was prepared.”
https://www.nytimes.com/…
HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/netflix-said-to-have-20-million-paying
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HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/netflix-said-to-have-20-million-paying
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Netflix secured $59B in bridge financing from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC for its WBD bid, one of the largest loans of its kind; Wells' share is $29.5B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/netfli…
Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest ever unsecured bridge loans (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/netflix-lines-…
HSBC signs a deal with Mistral to access Mistral's AI models and collaborate on developing new models for internal use, as big banks rush to adopt generative AI (Ortenca Aliaj/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7b8e4ea8-ae17-4ada-9117-9f859589ce1d