Quoted facts

License type. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is an HKMA-licensed bank, an EnsembleTX Tokenised Deposit Bank, and the issuer and product arranger of HSBC Gold Token. The SFC has authorised the issue of the Gold Token Principal Brochure; that authorisation is not a recommendation or endorsement. Also named on the official MAS Project Guardian Industry Group list. UK DSS Gate 2 (HSBC Orion) is a different legal entity and activity and is not this directory row. Not a public retail crypto-trading CASP.

Jurisdictions. Hong Kong: EnsembleTX Annex A and HSBC Gold Token (HSBC HK Investment Account and Hong Kong residential address; US persons / US address not eligible). Singapore: Project Guardian Industry Group. HSBC group pages also describe institutional tokenised gold in the UK. Tokenised-deposit settlement is a controlled HKMA pilot through 2026.

Crypto Adoption Score. 30% · Strategy Bitcoin Bank Adoption Index (public information as of 10 Jul 2026; approximate; Strategy has not published the scoring methodology). Not an AML score.

3 service rows in the CSV.

Services in the directory

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  Interbank Payments Payments & stablecoin

  EnsembleTX tokenised-deposit rails; first published live cross-bank EnsembleTX transaction.

  EnsembleTX Tokenised Deposit Bank and published first live cross-bank EnsembleTX tokenised-deposit transaction.

  • Transaction Screening
  • Monitoring & Alerts
  • Investigations & Filing

  Service Availability in Coutries. Hong Kong EnsembleTX pilot through 2026. Initial HKMA focus: tokenised deposits in tokenised money-market-fund transactions and real-time liquidity / treasury. Interbank settlement starts on the HKD RTGS system.

  Requierments. Hong Kong customer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. Bank KYC, AML and sanctions screening. EnsembleTX is a controlled HKMA pilot, not a public retail crypto exchange. DSS Gate 2 is not this row.

  Directory cites [4], [5], [8] — URLs are not in data/crypto_asset_service_providers.csv.

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  Tokenization Infrastructure Tokenization & DLT

  Project Guardian Industry Group and Wholesale Network (MAS official lists).

  Official Project Guardian Industry Group member (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation). MAS also names HSBC on the Guardian Wholesale Network.

  • Graph & Forensics
  • Research

  Service Availability in Coutries. Singapore Project Guardian Industry Group and Guardian Wholesale Network.

  Requierments. Existing HSBC institutional relationship. Bank KYC, AML and sanctions screening.

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  Investment Vehicles Wealth & liquidity

  Retail tokenised vaulted gold (0.001 oz per token) via HSBC HK App / Online Banking.

  HSBC Gold Token — digital token on HSBC's distributed ledger representing fractional ownership of 0.001 troy ounce of vaulted physical gold. Traded on HSBC HK App and Online Banking.

  • Entity & VASP Intelligence
  • Policy Studio
  • Research

  Service Availability in Coutries. Hong Kong retail: active HSBC HK Investment Account and Hong Kong residential address registered with the bank. US citizens, residents, taxpayers, nationals or persons with a US address are not eligible. Group pages also describe institutional tokenised gold in the UK. Investors cannot take delivery of the underlying gold.

  Requierments. HSBC HK Investment Account; Hong Kong residential address; bank KYC, AML and sanctions screening. Read the SFC-authorised Principal Brochure (effective 4 February 2026). SFC authorisation is not a suitability endorsement. Not a spot cryptocurrency product.