HSBC Global Private Banking Americas has launched its U.S.-Asia corridor team, a group of wealth management specialists with personal ties to Asian culture and who are fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin.

The team consists of relationship managers, investment counselors, credit advisers, wealth planners and account support staff in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.

HSBC Global Private Banking is the marketing name for the private banking business conducted by the principal private banking subsidiaries of HSBC Holdings PLC's HSBC Group.