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The BBC says that HSBC, the world's second largest bank, rich people to money so they would not have to tax. A BBC documentary programme access to the details of thousands of private bank accounts, worth $128 billion, from an HSBC bank in Switzerland. The information was by a whistleblower in 2007. It shows that HSBC its wealthy clients to tax. The whistleblower was a computer expert working for HSBC in Geneva. He the details of more than 100,000 clients worldwide. A French banking team at the stolen data in 2013. It that 99.8% of French citizens on the list were probably evading tax.

HSBC said the bank has a lot since 2007. It said: "HSBC has [put in place] numerous initiatives to its banking services being used to evade taxes or money." The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. said HSBC told its reporters that the bank that it failed to follow the law properly. One woman who when the bank did not make changes lost her job. Sue Shelley was responsible for making sure HSBC the law. The BBC said that when she that the bank was not its promise to change, the bank fired her. The BBC said HSBC is now criminal investigations in the USA, France, Belgium and Argentina.