Listing of HSBC Financial Services (Lebanon) SAL as a Financial Intermediation Institution

Announcement no 49
The Chairman of the Capital Markets Authority, Pursuant to Law No 161 dated 17/8/2011 on Capital Markets, Pursuant to the decision of the Capital Markets Authority’s Board No 12/8/18 taken in its meeting held on 9/7/2018, related to the approval on granting “HSBC Financial Services (Lebanon) SAL” a license as a financial intermediation institution to provide advising and arranging services with regards to securities business, Given that the above mentioned company is duly registered at the Commercial Register in Beirut, And upon the request filed by the institution at the CMA on 10/12/2018 and including its application for being listed as a financial intermediation institution, After reviewing the documents submitted and confirming the fulfillment of legal conditions required for such listing, Decides the following:
Article 1: To list HSBC Financial Services (Lebanon) SAL as a financial
intermediation institution that will be attributed No 27.
Article 2: This Announcement shall be published in the Official Gazette.
Beirut, February 4, 2019
Chairman of the CMA/
Governor of Banque du Liban
Riad Toufic Salame