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South China Morning Post

HSBC celebrates 60 years of nurturing future leaders

HSBC is committed to preparing a future-ready talent pool in Hong Kong and has for decades been providing students in the city with scholarships to help them achieve their full potential. Advertisement This year, the bank is celebrating two big milestones – HSBC's 160th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the HSBC scholarship scheme. Through its philanthropic arm The Hongkong Bank Foundation, HSBC has helped more than 7,500 students pursue their dreams – in everything from finance to public service and the performing arts – through its scholarship offerings, namely the HSBC Global Scholarship, Innovation and Technology Scholarship, HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship, HSBC Social Work Scholarship and the HSBC Vocational Education Scholarship. 'Hong Kong is a home market for HSBC, and we want to ensure there is a future-ready talent pool for the city,' says Peter Wong, chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and The Hongkong Bank Foundation. 'We are proud to support local talent and create opportunities to help them succeed. It is how we will keep Hong Kong thriving as a welcoming, international city.' When launched in 1965, the first scholarships were for undergraduates studying social work, a relatively new field at the time and one where there was a clear need for more trained professionals. Subsequently, the number of awards steadily expanded to include more university-level programmes and vocational training courses to reflect the city's development. Advertisement Each scholarship provides financial support to awardees but is also an invitation to be part of a bigger community that is passionate about giving back to the city they call home – Hong Kong. A clear commitment to that ethos is among the selection criteria, along with an ambition to accept challenges and grow. Past recipients are enrolled into Hub for the Future, an alumni body that has a membership of more than 3,300. 'Seeing our amazingly diverse alumni make lasting contributions to the well-being of the wider community over time is the real payback,' Wong says.