Every category where a model named HSBC for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Business banking	Treasury and cash	0%	33 of 78	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Mercury at 20%
Cross-border payments and FX	Treasury and cash	0%	62 of 83	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wise Business at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HSBC yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated HSBC across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative8 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“commercial banking relationship (Chase, BofA, Wells Fargo, US Bank, HSBC)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Business banking · direct prompt · alternative

“Excellent for international B2B companies” MiniMax M2.5 · Business banking · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Worst overall service quality; SMEs report no relationship manager... avoid the "big four" (HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Business banking · negative prompt · hard negative

“may not yet want the rigid, high-fee structure of a traditional tier-one global bank (like HSBC or Citi)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cross-border payments · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HSBC, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HSBC was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Chase Business Banking15 of 229Not in the top three

Bank of America13 of 222Not in the top three

Citibank10 of 221Not in the top three

Wells Fargo9 of 220Not in the top three

Airwallex8 of 222Not in the top three

Mercury8 of 221Not in the top three

Barclays6 of 220Not in the top three

Deutsche Bank6 of 220Not in the top three

Relay6 of 220Not in the top three

Wise Business6 of 220Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named HSBC. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 20 of the 22 answers that named HSBC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com11

nerdwallet.com10

backbase.com9

airwallex.com8

finder.com7

found.com7

handelsblatt.com7

amnistreasury.com6

rfp.wiki6

rho.co6

Seventy-seven of the seventy-seven domain citations in answers naming HSBC came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

backbase.com/blog/top-business-banking-platform-providers8

forbes.com/financial-services/best-business-checking-accounts7

handelsblatt.com/geschaeftskonto/vergleich7

amnistreasury.com/blog/business-account-comparison6

found.com/resources/business-banking/best-business-bank-accounts-growing-businesses-employ6

rho.co/blog/best-online-business-bank-accounts6

airwallex.com/en-us/blog/compare-business-bank-accounts5

finder.com/uk/business-banking4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as HSBC

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as HSBC; a claim can dispute any of them.

HSBC Business Banking 1HSBC/Barclays 1

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when HSBC's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as HSBC, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at hsbc.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.