HSBC started as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and its founders were intimately involved in the opium trade. This article seems reasonably neu

HSBC started as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and its founders were intimately involved in the opium trade. This article seems reasonably neutral and historically accurate: https://mondediplo.com/2010/02/04hsbc https://mondediplo.com/2010/02/04hsbc.