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Georges Elhedery, chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc, during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the HSBC Global Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. HSBC expects to double down on investment banking operations Asia and the Middle East after exiting key business in Europe and the US, Elhedery said. Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images

HSBC’s return-to-office push risks denting CEO’s savings plan

By Harry Wilson and Bloomberg

Bill Winters, chief executive officer of Standard Chartered Plc, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Monday, June 2, 2025.

StanChart CEO is in no rush for return-to-office mandates

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Sergio Ermotti, chief executive officer of UBS Group AG, during a Bloomberg Television interview in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. UBS posted higher than expected profit in the second quarter, buttressing Ermotti’s efforts to return capital to shareholders. Photographer: Pascal Mora/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Europe’s banks kick off sweeping job cuts in ‘Year of Reckoning’

By Harry Wilson and Bloomberg

People walk past an HSBC bank in Covent Garden, London, the banking giant is reporting a profit of £16.9 billion for the first half of the financial year. Picture date: Tuesday August 1, 2023. (Photo by Lucy North/PA Images via Getty Images)

HSBC managers are competing to keep their jobs in CEO’s revamp

By Ambereen Choudhury, Harry Wilson, and others

The HSBC Holdings Plc offices, left, in the Canary Wharf business, financial and shopping district in London, UK, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. HSBC Holdings Plc has been looking for alternatives to its docklands skyscraper as it looks for a more flexible workspace and adapts to the post-Covid cityscape, and said its preferred option is BT Group Plc's former head office near St Paul's Cathedral. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

HSBC promotes Georges Elhedery as next CEO: One of the ‘biggest seats in global finance’

By Harry Wilson, Denise Wee, and others

person walking outside an HSBC bank branch

Who will be HSBC’s next CEO? An internal candidate seems likely for Europe’s largest bank

By Bloomberg, Harry Wilson, and others

Noel Quinn, chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc, during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the HSBC Global Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, April 8, 2024. Quinn said he’s pushing to improve his firm’s wealth management capabilities in China and India to be on par with its key market of Hong Kong. Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images

HSBC CEO Noel Quinn, who pivoted Europe’s largest bank back towards Asia, unexpectedly steps down

By Harry Wilson, Ambereen Choudhury, and others

Jes Staley, chief executive officer of Barclays Plc, gestures as he speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. World leaders, influential executives, bankers and policy makers attend the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 21 – 24. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ex-JPMorgan private wealth boss had ‘profound’ friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and may have facilitated sex trafficking, lawsuit claims

By Ava Benny-Morrison, Harry Wilson, and others

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE – FEBRUARY 26: Chief Executive of HSBC, Peter Wong attends a welcome dinner prior to the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club on February 26, 2019 in Singapore. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)

HSBC plans to grant oversight of Asia—its largest profit center—to two co-heads

By Ambereen Choudhury, Donal Griffin, and others

LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 05: Fog shrouds the Canary Wharf business district including global financial institutions Citigroup Inc., State Street Corp., Barclays Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc and the commercial office block No. 1 Canada Square, on the Isle of Dogs on November 05, 2020 in London, England. England today began a second national lockdown to curb a surge in covid-19 cases, closing pubs, restaurants and an array of shops deemed non-essential. The new rules, which will expire on 2 December, also ban most indoor and outdoor household mixing and grass-roots sports. Unlike the first lockdown earlier this year, schools in England will remain open. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A viral LinkedIn post sheds brutal new light on banking’s work-till-you-drop culture

By Lananh Nguyen, Harry Wilson, and others

Views of HSBC As CEO Faces U.K. Questions Over H.K. Account Freezes

HSBC unveils plan to invest $6 billion in Asia

By Harry Wilson, Ambereen Choudhury, and others

The HSBC Holdings Plc headquarters building stands illuminated in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. The bank is reportedly pausing social media posting over the FinCEN revelations.

HSBC under social media blackout after leaked suspicious activity reports

By Harry Wilson and Bloomberg

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HSBC revives its coronavirus-stalled plan to cut thousands of jobs

By Alfred Liu, Harry Wilson, and others

Ex-HSBC CEO John Flint

HSBC Ousts CEO John Flint After Just 18 Months

By Harry Wilson, Alfred Liu, and others