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HSBC to sell US$25b of Australian home loans to Blackstone at a loss of less than US$100m

Source
South China Morning Post - Business
Source link
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3362531/hsbc-sell-us25b-australian-home-loans-blackstone-loss-less-us100m?utm_source=rss_feed
Published
2026-07-31 08:33:17
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-07-31 08:51:37
Category
Procurement & Supply Chain News
Geography
China
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

HSBC Holdings has agreed to sell its US$25 billion Australian home loan portfolio to a unit of Blackstone, which is expected to result in an immaterial pre-tax loss of less than US$100 million for the group by the first half of 2027, according to a stock exchange filing on Friday. The sale price was based on the portfolio’s value of A$36 billion (US$25 billion) as at the end of January, plus a premium related to changes in interest rates, collections received, and costs. The net proceeds will be...

Possibly the same underlying story as New Home Sales — flagged automatically for review, never merged automatically.

Procurement Relevance Gate

FAIL — score 7.0/100 — evaluated 2026-07-31 08:55:19
Only geographic exposure matched — no substantive content indicator, so this cannot pass alone.
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

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