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Several of Hong Kong’s largest banks will fully restore their branch operations next week, as the city prepares to relax some of its social-distancing rules amid improved vaccination rates and a slowing caseload . HSBC and Standard Chartered, two of the city’s currency-issuing banks, said they will reopen all branches on April 19. A Hang Seng bank spokeswoman said the lender had “similar arrangements to HSBC”, while a spokeswoman for Citi said all branches should be open again soon. The decision ends an 11-week period during which as many as one in every four bank branches had to be shut...
