HSBC Bank Middle East

HSBC Bank Middle East Limited company
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryFinance and Insurance
Founded1889 (1889)
FounderImperial Bank of Iran Paul Reuter
HeadquartersDubai, UAE
Key people
  • Martin Tricaud (deputy chairman and CEO)
  • Abdul Hakeem Mostafawi (CEO of HSBC Qatar)
  • Jody Sanderson (Head of Global Banking, GCC ex-UAE)
  • Osama Ali (Head of Global Banking Qatar)
ProductsFinancial services
Websitewww.hsbc.co.il (Israel)

www.hsbc.com.eg (Egypt)
www.hsbc.com.qa (Qatar)
www.hsbc.co.om (Oman)
www.hsbc.com.bh (Bahrain)
www.hsbc.com.kw (Kuwait)

www.hsbc.ae (UAE)

HSBC Bank Middle East (HBME, Arabic: إتش إس بي سي الشرق الأوسط), known from 1959 to 1999 as British Bank of the Middle East (BBME), is the largest and most widely represented international bank in the Middle East, fully owned by HSBC. It was founded in Tehran, Qajar Iran in 1889 and has successively been headquartered in Tehran (1889-1959), London (1959-1999), Jersey (1999-2016), and Dubai since 2016.

HBME is regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority, but remains locally regulated in each of the countries in which it operates by the country's Central Bank and its other regulators.