The Asia-focused bank cranked up its bad loan impairments by US$611mln in the second quarter to take its total credit provisions to US$1.6bn for the first half of 2020. READ: HSBC and Standard Chartered slide as US considers undermining Hong Kong dollar peg Seemingly in contrast to its FTSE 100 banking peers, income rose 5% to US$8.0bn for the half-year, but this masked a 4% decline in the second quarter after a positive start to the year.