Trading assets

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Financial Instruments [Abstract]

Trading assets

11 Trading assets

	2021	2020
	$m	$m
Treasury and other eligible bills	23,110	24,035
Debt securities	89,944	102,846
Equity securities	109,614	77,643
Trading securities	222,668	204,524
Loans and advances to banks1	7,767	8,242
Loans and advances to customers1	18,407	19,224
Year ended 31 Dec	248,842	231,990

1    Loans and advances to banks and customers include reverse repos, stock borrowing and other accounts.