Business banking · RankedHSBC
HSBC is a banking and financial services institution serving millions of customers · hsbc.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Mercury is first at 41%.
Mercury is first at 17%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Brex is first at 27%.
Why models recommend it
“HSBC Business for companies with a UK/Europe focus, No fee + 2-3% markup”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds (UK) – Multiple Financial Ombudsman cases reveal”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“the Financial Ombudsman has documented multiple cases of business accounts being blocked or closed during compliance reviews”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“$1.9 billion fine for AML/compliance violations”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as HSBC, over the 24 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 3 | View → | |
| 17 | 8 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on HSBC's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- millions of customers
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 22 of the 24 answers that named HSBC and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-two of the sixty-three domain citations in answers naming HSBC came from a third party's page. Six were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 27 | 13 | 2026-09-10 | ||
| Conference or event | 2 | 2 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Blog | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-10Hsbc climate tech connect programme launched at hong kong green week news or press
- 2026-09-07Sports and arts partnerships news or press
- 2026-09-03Hsbcs annual china conference explores the next chapter of growth conference or event
- 2026-09-03Hsbc uk strengthens support for farmers news or press
- 2026-08-31Were there news or press
- 2026-08-25Fintechs and financiers find opportunity at the hsbc asia fintech summit conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hsbc.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.