3 papers
econ.GN2025
HSBC 1950 to 2025: Conquering the world from British Hong Kong and London
Christopher Mantzaris, Ajda Fošner
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Co (HSBC) just survived a civil war intermitted by World War II. By the 1950s, it obviously needed to close all its branches in Mao's People's Rep…
econ.GN2025
HSBC until 1950: From its colonial cradle past the World Wars
Christopher Mantzaris, Ajda Fošner
Europe's largest bank by assets as of 2025 started out in the 1860s in one of Europe's colonies: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Co (HSBC). Multiple wars forced Qing China and la…
math.RA2019
Preserving the trace of the Kronecker sum
Yorick Hardy, Ajda Fošner
The aim of this paper is to study linear preservers of the trace of Kronecker sums and their connection with preservers of determinants of Kronecker products. The partial trace and…