Hong Kong

Australia I China I Hong Kong I India I Indonesia I Japan I Malaysia I Mongolia I Pakistan I Philippines I Singapore I Taiwan I Thailand HSBC wins the best bank in Hong Kong award again and it is hard to see the bank ever relinquishing the title, given its complete dominance of the market. It is the largest bank in Hong Kong by far, with the largest branch network and a product range to cover every kind of customer, from retail, consumer to commercial and corporate. The bank reported pretax profit for 2005 of $5.8 billion, a return on average assets of 1.44%, a cost-income ratio of 41.2%, a return on equity of 37% and a capital adequacy ratio of 12.4%.