London-headquartered lender HSBC’s private banking business has launched HSBC Access in Singapore, a proposition designed to give ultra-high-net-worth ( UHNW ) and family office clients access to institutional-grade solutions, exclusive investment opportunities and specialist insights.
Eligible clients can access investment opportunities involving high-growth innovation companies through a range of investment structures.
This is the first time the lender’s private bank clients in Singapore have been able to access this type of opportunity since HSBC Innovation Banking launched locally in October 2025 with a dedicated US$1.5 billion funding pool for high-growth innovation companies.
HSBC Access offers a range of investment opportunities, including venture capital funds, private market and direct investment opportunities, some of which were previously available only to institutional clients. Some of these opportunities are sourced from its corporate and institutional banking and innovation banking businesses.
This builds on growing collaboration across HSBC’s businesses. Across Asia, new private bank relationships arising from referrals from corporate and institutional banking increased over 50% year on year in the first half of 2026.
In addition, HSBC Access provides specialist insights and intelligence from across the bank’s corporate, trade and innovation banking businesses. The proposition also facilitates curated introductions to individuals and businesses, such as founders of technology start-ups, strengthening the bank’s support for the innovation ecosystem.
In Singapore, the proposition, complements Innovation Exchange, part of its private bank’s enhanced entrepreneurial wealth proposition to connect clients with entrepreneurs and ventures across Asia’s innovation economy. Singapore is a leading innovation and private capital hub in Asia.
The launch comes as a new generation of wealth owners in Singapore looks for direct exposure to the companies and founders driving that growth, rather than access through public markets alone.
“Close to two-thirds of our private bank clients in Singapore are entrepreneurs, and the wealth they have created is now moving to a generation that thinks about investing differently,” says Tommy Leung, HSBC’s head of private banking for South Asia. “Founders and their families want to be close to the companies shaping the innovation economy, not one step removed from it.”
