AXA — M&A Activity 2012

Nov 5, 2012

AXA has completed the acquisition of HSBC P&C businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore

AXA announced today that it has successfully completed the acquisition of HSBC P&C operations in Hong Kong and Singapore. Consequently, AXA and HSBC have launched their exclusive P&C bancassurance cooperation in these countries.

The acquisition of HSBC P&C operations in Mexico will be completed in due course, as well as the launch of the P&C bancassurance cooperation in Mexico, China, India and Indonesia.

About the AXA Group

The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with more than 163,000 employees serving 101 million clients in 57 countries. In 2011, IFRS revenues amounted to Euro 86.1 billion and IFRS Underlying Earnings to Euro 3.9 billion. AXA had Euro 1,065 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2011.

The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 – Bloomberg: CS FP – Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA's American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY.

The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD, and is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance.

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