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HSBC Holdings Plc: Strategic Hiring
HSBC is actively hiring more bankers and deploying senior leadership to revive its Hong Kong investment banking franchise, which has faced recent setbacks. The bank is attempting to regain market share in Asia's largest financial hub amid intensifying competition.
Source: Financial Post
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening banking executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Backdrop: a 98.6 (Neutral) Talent Market Index (down 1.4 on the month) with Asia activity rising (+2.4pts).
HSBC Holdings Plc: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Banking/Financial Services median of 1 across 12 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow.
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