singaporelondon feb 21 reuters  hsbc holdings hsbal reported a betterthanexpected 92 surge in quarterly profit on tuesday as rising interest rates swelled its net interest income encouraging europes largest bank to reiterate it could meet a key performance target for this year the bank said it intended to pay a special dividend of 021 per share as a priority use of the proceeds from the 10 billion sale of its canada business once that disposal is complete late this year reporting by anshuman daga and lawrence white editing by kenneth maxwell