HSBC to sell headquarters building South Korea fund 800 million pound

Liu Sheiyuan 13th, foreign quoted South Korean national annuity public Pension Service, a unnamed official said that the Korean national annuity Group will be 800 million pounds, the acquisition of HSBC Holdings in the London Financial District Canary Wharf headquarters building, the two sides are scheduled to sign a contract on 16th.　　As of press, HSBC has not yet made a public response to this issue. This is the third time the building is easy to master. At the peak of the April 2007 UK property market, Metrovacesa, Spain's biggest real estate developer, bought the building for 1.09 billion pounds. In December 2008, 18 months later, Metrovacesa had to sell the building to HSBC holdings at 838 million pounds for financing, at the lowest point in the UK property market.　　Once in a while, the exchange control easily earns 250 million pounds.　　Korea National Annuity is the main management of the Korean national annuity, it is the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare of the non-profit independent legal body, mainly responsible for the national annuity levy and treatment payment work, and the National Pension Fund investment operations and the construction of some social welfare facilities.　　There are signs that HSBC is tightening its strategic focus "eastward". 12th, HSBC was awarded a registered subsidiary company in Taiwan. HSBC Asia Pacific chairman Vincent Cheng believes that the establishment of subsidiaries in Taiwan will further enhance HSBC's Greater China platform.　　Before the meeting, the chief executive of the group, Geoghegan, will be resident in Hong Kong starting next February. Coincidentally, November 3 HSBC announced that it will cut 1726 jobs in the UK in the coming year, mainly in the UK's retail banking sector.　　This is the second time this year that the bank announced a sharp layoff in the UK, this March, the bank announced in the UK to lay off more than 1200 people.　　Separately, HSBC announced on October 3 that it would sell its New York headquarters building at No. 452, New York, at $330 million, as the buyer was the largest investment holding company in Israel, IDB Group. It has also been reported that HSBC's office building in the Champs-Elysees in Paris is also being planned for sale, which is expected to cost $500 million. HSBC Holdings said in April that it had hired a property consultancy to look for buyers for the three buildings, and that the sale of three buildings would bring HSBC about $2 billion trillion.