Related Party Transactions

In the normal course of business, we conduct transactions with HSBC and its subsidiaries. These transactions occur at prevailing market rates and terms and include funding arrangements, derivative, servicing arrangements, information technology, centralized support services, banking and other miscellaneous services. All extensions of credit by (and certain credit exposures of) HSBC Bank USA to other HSBC affiliates (other than Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") insured banks) are legally required to be secured by eligible collateral. The following tables and discussions below present the more significant related party balances and the income (expense) generated by related party transactions:



	March 31, 2014		December 31, 2013
	(in millions)
Assets:
Cash and due from banks	$	106	$	102
Interest bearing deposits with banks ⁽¹⁾	921		631
Trading assets ⁽²⁾	15,995		17,082
Loans	5,277		5,328
Other ⁽³⁾	1,050		1,219
Total assets	$	23,349	$	24,362
Liabilities:
Deposits	$	13,518	$	16,936
Trading liabilities ⁽²⁾	17,833		19,463
Short-term borrowings	1,712		1,514
Long-term debt	3,988		3,987
Other ⁽³⁾	617		573
Total liabilities	$	37,668	$	42,473


⁽¹⁾	Includes interest bearing deposits with HSBC Mexico S.A. of $800 million and $500 million at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.


⁽²⁾	Trading assets and trading liabilities do not reflect the impact of netting which allows the offsetting of amounts relating to certain contracts if certain conditions are met. Trading assets and liabilities primarily consist of derivatives contracts.


⁽³⁾	Other assets and other liabilities primarily consist of derivative contracts.



Three Months Ended March 31,	2014			2013
	(in millions)
Income/(Expense):
Interest income	$	37		$	22
Interest expense	(18		)	(20		)
Net interest income	$	19		$	2
Servicing and other fees from HSBC affiliate:
Fees and commissions:
HSBC Finance Corporation	$	15		$	21
HSBC Markets (USA) Inc. ("HMUS")	4			5
Other HSBC affiliates	19			16
Other HSBC affiliates income	9			12
Total affiliate income	$	47		$	54
Support services from HSBC affiliates:
HSBC Finance Corporation	$	(3	)	$	(4	)
HMUS	(53		)	(52		)
HSBC Technology & Services (USA) ("HTSU")	(253		)	(233		)
Other HSBC affiliates	(45		)	(35		)
Total support services from HSBC affiliates	$	(354	)	$	(324	)
Stock based compensation expense with HSBC ⁽¹⁾	$	(7	)	$	(9	)


⁽¹⁾	Employees may participate in one or more stock compensation plans sponsored by HSBC. These expenses are included in Salaries and employee benefits in our consolidated statement of income. Employees also may participate in a defined benefit pension plan and other postretirement plans sponsored by HSBC North America which are discussed in Note 12, "Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits."

Funding Arrangements with HSBC Affiliates:

We use HSBC affiliates to fund a portion of our borrowing and liquidity needs. Long-term debt with affiliates reflects $4.0 billion in senior debt with HSBC North America. Of this amount, $1.0 billion is a 5 year floating rate note which matures in August 2014 and $3.0 billion that matures in three equal installments of $1.0 billion in April 2015, 2016 and 2017. The debt bears interest at 90 day USD Libor plus a spread, with each maturity at a different spread.

We have the following funding arrangements available with HSBC affiliates, although there were no outstanding balances at either March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013:


•	$900 million committed line of credit with HSBC Investment (Bahamas) Limited, which was increased to $1,000 million in April, 2014;


•	$500 million committed line of credit with HSBC; and


•	$150 million uncommitted line of credit with HSBC North America Inc. ("HNAI").

We have also incurred short-term borrowings with certain affiliates, largely related to metals activity. In addition, certain affiliates have also placed deposits with us.

Lending and Derivative Related Arrangements Extended to HSBC Affiliates:

At March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, we have the following loan balances outstanding with HSBC affiliates:



	March 31, 2014		December 31, 2013
	(in millions)
HSBC Finance Corporation	$	3,015	$	3,015
HSBC Markets (USA) Inc. ("HMUS") and subsidiaries	931		199
HSBC Bank Brasil S.A.	1,000		1,000
Other short-term affiliate lending	331		1,114
Total assets	$	5,277	$	5,328

HSBC Finance Corporation - We have extended a $5.0 billion, 364 day uncommitted unsecured revolving credit agreement to HSBC Finance which allows for borrowings with maturities of up to 15 years. At both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, $3.0 billion was outstanding under this credit agreement with $512 million maturing in September 2017, $1.5 billion maturing in January 2018 and $1.0 billion maturing in September 2018. We have also extended a committed revolving credit facility to HSBC Finance of $1.0 billion which did not have any outstanding balance at either March 31, 2014 or December 31, 2013. This credit facility expires in May 2017.

HMUS and subsidiaries - We have extended loans and lines, some of them uncommitted, to HMUS and its subsidiaries in the amount of $6.7 billion and $3.8 billion at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively, of which $931 million and $199 million, respectively, was outstanding. The outstanding balances mature at various stages between 2014 and 2015.

HSBC Bank Brasil S.A. - We have extended uncommitted lines of credit to HSBC Bank Brasil in the amount of $1.5 billion at both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, of which $1.0 billion was outstanding at both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013. The outstanding balances mature at various stages between 2014 and 2015.

We have extended lines of credit to various other HSBC affiliates totaling $2.3 billion which did not have any outstanding balances at either March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013.

Other short-term affiliate lending - In addition to loans and lines extended to affiliates discussed above, from time to time we may extend loans to affiliates which are generally short term in nature. At March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, there were $331 million and $1,114 million of these loans outstanding.

HUSI is also committed to provide liquidity facilities to backstop the liquidity risk in Regency, an asset-backed commercial paper conduit consolidated by our affiliate, in relation to assets originated in the U.S. region. The notional amount of the liquidity facilities provided by HUSI to Regency was approximately $2.3 billion as of March 31, 2014, which is less than half of Regency's total liquidity facilities.

As part of a global HSBC strategy to offset interest rate or other market risks associated with debt issues and derivative contracts with unaffiliated third parties, we routinely enter into derivative transactions with HSBC Finance and other HSBC affiliates. The notional value of derivative contracts related to these contracts was approximately $1,134.4 billion and $1,210.6 billion at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively. The net credit exposure (defined as the net fair value of derivative assets and liabilities) related to the contracts was approximately $319 million and $845 million at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively. Our Global Banking and Markets business accounts for these transactions on a mark to market basis, with the change in value of contracts with HSBC affiliates substantially offset by the change in value of related contracts entered into with unaffiliated third parties.

Services Provided Between HSBC Affiliates:

Under multiple service level agreements, we provide services to and receive services from various HSBC affiliates. The following summarizes these activities:

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Servicing activities for residential mortgage loans across North America are performed both by us and HSBC Finance. As a result, we receive servicing fees from HSBC Finance for services performed on their behalf and pay servicing fees to HSBC Finance for services performed on our behalf. The fees we receive from HSBC Finance are reported in Servicing and other fees from HSBC affiliates. Fees we pay to HSBC Finance are reported in Support services from HSBC affiliates. This includes fees paid for the servicing of residential mortgage loans (with a carrying amount of $944 million and $983 million at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013) that we purchased from HSBC Finance in 2003 and 2004.

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HSBC North America's technology and certain centralized support services including human resources, corporate affairs, risk management, legal, compliance, tax, finance and other shared services that are centralized within HTSU. HTSU also provides certain item processing and statement processing activities to us. The fees we pay HTSU for the centralized support services and processing activities are included in Support services from HSBC affiliates. We also receive fees from HTSU for providing certain administrative services to them. The fees we receive from HTSU are included in Servicing and other fees from HSBC affiliates.


•	We use HSBC Global Resourcing (UK) Ltd., an HSBC affiliate located outside of the United States, to provide various support services to our operations including among other areas, customer service, systems, collection and accounting functions. The expenses related to these services are included in Support services from HSBC affiliates.

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We utilize HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. ("HSI") for broker dealer, debt underwriting, customer referrals, loan syndication and all other treasury and traded markets related services, pursuant to service level agreements. Fees charged by HSI for broker dealer, loan syndication services, treasury and traded markets related services are included in Support services from HSBC affiliates. Debt underwriting fees charged by HSI are deferred as a reduction of long-term debt and amortized to interest expense over the life of the related debt. Customer referral fees paid to HSI are netted against customer fee income, which is included in other fees and commissions.

Other Transactions with HSBC Affiliates

We also received revenue from our affiliates for rent on certain office space, which has been recorded as a component of support services from HSBC affiliates. Rental revenue from our affiliates was $14 million and $12 million for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.