Question: Republic New York Corporation was the holding company for the Republic National Bank of New York and the Safra Republic Bank, Republic New York Corporation was sold shortly after its chairman's death to HSBC Bank USA, the US subsidiary of which British multinational banking and financial services holding company, tracing its origin to a hong in Hong Kong?

full_context: Document 1: National &amp; Capital: National & Capital, or N&C as it is more commonly known claims to be "one of the UK's leading mortgage brokers" who specialise in the placement of prime, buy to let and non-conforming mortgages. It was established in 1999 as Fasttrack Finance but later changed its name to Essex & Capital Mortgage Corporation Ltd when it was acquired by the US Investment Bank Bear Stearns. It was taken back into private ownership in 2006 as National & Capital when Bear Stearns took the decision to withdraw completely from the UK mortgage market after a rise in foreclosures in the United States in late 2006 which subsequently triggered a global financial crisis through 2007 and 2008.
Document 2: Mehraj Mattoo: Mehraj Mattoo (महराज मट्टू ) is a British investment banker, economist and author; currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Asset Management. According to the UK and Cayman Islands company records, Commonwealth Asset Management is majority owned by NR Investments, the investment vehicle of the Rothschild Family. Before co-founding Commonwealth, Dr. Mattoo was Global Head of Asset Management at Commerzbank AG, leading one of the largest hedge fund and private equity groups globally (Investhedge 2009; The Billion Dollar Club). Prior to Commerzbank, Dr. Mattoo was the Managing Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank AG, the second largest bank in Germany. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Mattoo co-founded the first fund derivatives group in the City at BNP Paribas, the largest French/global bank by assets. He is widely credited for pioneering the use of structured products on alternative investments, especially hedge funds, that helped attract institutional assets to the hedge fund industry and contributed to its explosive growth over the following decade. In the early 1990s, Dr. Mattoo established and led the Structured Products business at NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of Britain's largest bank, National Westminster Bank, now part of RBS Group and led an educational effort aimed at promoting responsible use of derivatives by corporations and institutional investors.
Document 3: HSBC: HSBC Holdings PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services holding company, tracing its origin to a hong in Hong Kong. It is the world's seventh largest bank by total assets and the largest in Europe with total assets of US$2.374 trillion (as of December 2016). It was established in its present form in London in 1991 by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited to act as a new group holding company. The origins of the bank lie mainly in Hong Kong and to a lesser extent in Shanghai, where branches were first opened in 1865. The HSBC name is derived from the initials of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The company was first formally incorporated in 1866. The company continues to see both the United Kingdom and Hong Kong as its "home markets".
Document 4: HSBC Private Bank: HSBC Private Bank is the principal private banking business of the HSBC Group. HSBC Private Bank's holding company is HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) S.A.. The holding company is wholly owned by British HSBC Bank plc and its subsidiaries include HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) S.A., HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited, HSBC Private Bank (C.I.) Limited, HSBC Private Bank (Luxembourg) S.A., HSBC Private Bank (Monaco) S.A. and HSBC Financial Services (Cayman) Limited.
Document 5: HSBC Bank USA: HSBC Bank USA, National Association, an American subsidiary of UK-based HSBC, is a bank with its operational head office in New York City and its nominal head office in McLean, Virginia (as designated on its charter). HSBC Bank USA, N.A. is a national bank chartered under the National Bank Act, and thus is regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The company has 230 branch locations.
Document 6: JPMorgan Chase: JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest bank in the United States, the world's sixth largest bank by total assets, with total assets of US$2.5 trillion, and the world's second most valuable bank by market capitalization, after ICBC. It is a major provider of financial services, and according to "Forbes" magazine is the world's sixth largest public company based upon a composite ranking. The hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase is the second largest hedge fund in the United States. The company was formed in 2000, when Chase Manhattan Corporation merged with J.P. Morgan & Co.
Document 7: Franklin National Bank: Franklin National Bank, based in Franklin Square in Long Island, New York was once the United States' 20th largest bank. On October 8, 1974, it collapsed in obscure circumstances, involving Michele Sindona, renowned Mafia-banker and member of the irregular freemasonic lodge, Propaganda Due. It was at the time the largest bank failure in the history of the country.
Document 8: Bank of China (Hong Kong): Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (BOCHK, ) is the second-largest commercial banking group in Hong Kong in terms of assets and customer deposits, with more than 300 branches in Hong Kong. It was established on 1 October 2001 from a merger of 12 subsidiaries and associates of the Bank of China in Hong Kong, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in October 2002. As of the end of 2003, the bank had HK$763 billion in assets and earned net profit of HK$8 billion in 2003. Its head office is in the Bank of China Tower in Central.
Document 9: Rubin Schron: Rubin Schron, who goes by Ruby, is a New York City real estate investor, landlord and the founder of Cammeby's International Group. He has a personal net worth of well over $10 billion, according to data company Real Capital Analytics. The portfolio of Cammeby's, which Schron founded in 1967, includes office buildings, market-rate and government-subsidized apartment complexes, nursing homes, the 16-building complex in Sunset Park now known as Industry City, a stake in the bottom half of Woolworth Building and industrial properties scattered across Long Island. In 2013, Schron made an unsolicited and unsuccessful offer to buy the Empire State Building for $2 billion, but he has not had problems closing many other deals throughout his long career. In 2003, an investment group led by Schron paid $600 million for a portfolio of about 6,000 outer-borough apartments from Donald Trump. Other buildings he owns include the Monterey, a 521-unit rental multifamily building on Manhattan's Upper East Side; over the decades, Schron has also amassed a portfolio of Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings whose values have been skyrocketing to record values, after reverting to market rates when government subsidies expired. In 2007, he sold nearly 4,000 units of former Mitchell-Lama properties in five complexes in Harlem and on Roosevelt Island for $940 million. Schron, who practices Orthodox Judaism, has eight children and 50 grandchildren. He and his family have lived in the same single-family home in Brooklyn for many decades.
Document 10: Republic New York: Republic New York Corporation was the holding company for the Republic National Bank of New York and the Safra Republic Bank. The company was controlled by billionaire Edmond Safra, who was killed in a fire in his Monte Carlo penthouse apartment by his nurse Ted Maher. Republic New York Corporation was sold shortly after its chairman's death to HSBC Bank USA, the US subsidiary of HSBC of the UK.
Document 11: Guy de Rothschild: Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (] ; 21 May 1909 – 12 June 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He owned the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1985.
Document 12: Edmond de Rothschild Group: The Edmond de Rothschild Group is an international, family-owned and independent financial group, specialised in private banking, asset management, private equity, corporate finance and funds administration.
Document 13: UBS: UBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company, incorporated in the Canton of Zurich, and co-headquartered in Zürich and Basel. The company provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, and is generally considered to be a bulge bracket bank. In Switzerland, these services are also offered to retail clients. The name "UBS" was originally an abbreviation for the Union Bank of Switzerland, but it ceased to be a representational abbreviation after the bank's merger with the Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998. The company traces its origins to 1856, when the earliest of its predecessor banks was founded.
Document 14: Royal Bank of Scotland Group: The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (also known as RBS Group) is a British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The group operates a wide variety of banking brands offering personal and business banking, private banking, insurance and corporate finance through its offices located in Europe, North America and Asia. In the UK, its main subsidiary companies are The Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Ulster Bank and Coutts. The group issues banknotes in Scotland and Northern Ireland and, as of 2014, The Royal Bank of Scotland is the only bank in the UK to still print £1 notes.
Document 15: HSBC Bank Canada: HSBC Bank Canada, formerly the Hongkong Bank of Canada (French: "Banque HSBC Canada" ), is a bank in Canada that is part of British banking giant HSBC - one of the largest banking groups in the world. HSBC Canada is the seventh largest bank in Canada, with offices in every province except Prince Edward Island, and is the largest foreign-owned bank in the country. Corporate headquarters are in the financial district of Vancouver, British Columbia. HSBC Bank Canada's Institution Number (or bank number) is 016.
ground_truth: HSBC Holdings PLC