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Hiring is a coup for HSBC as it tries to build on success of simplified structure in growing GBM division.

With the bank’s HQ distraction now over, disappointing results have switched attention to the CEO.

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For many of the largest private banks 2015 was a year of restructuring and geographical retrenchment. Only a few global players remain. This year looks set to be just as turbulent, but will clients put up with yet more change?

UBS Wealth Management voted best global private bank; revenue outlook dimmer this year; asset management competition heats up.

Survey attracts more than 2,000 votes as biggest players hang on to top spots

Trade Finance Survey 2016 full results Global 2016 2015 1 1 Deutsche Bank 2 2 UniCredit 3 3 Citi 4 4 HSBC 5 5 Commerzbank 6 14 Société Générale 7 12 RBS 8 6 Standard Chartered 9 20 ING 10 10 Santander

Deutsche Bank retains its position as the leading global trade-finance bank in this year’s Euromoney survey. The German bank and overall runner-up UniCredit also dominated the results by region and by product.

It was the weakest year for global trade since the financial crisis. Trade-finance margins and volumes fell in 2015, while bank competition and industry costs jumped. Euromoney surveys the fallout.

HSBC latest to pledge green bond investments; Barclays hits £1 billion target and promises more.

Survey pulls in 27,000 responses from across financial institutions and non-financial institutions.

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Quietly, but forcefully, the bank is getting its message across to UK government and regulators.

Investment banking rivals may scoff, but HSBC’s Asia shift could prove a canny piece of business.

The bank excelled in all the key areas of primary market issuance across the emerging markets

George Osborne acknowledges that a bank levy based on global assets risks damaging the UK, but his solution might not appease HSBC.

California’s new treasurer picked his target when he made an example of the foreign bank but the domestic players have been warned.

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QNB named best bank in Middle East, HSBC dominates investment banking categories, in Euromoney Awards for Excellence Middle East 2015

The $5.6 billion of fines handed out to six leading foreign exchange banks will not be the end of the crisis afflicting FX, but it might be the beginning of the end. The people at the top of the industry are starting to think more deeply about what will drive success in the FX markets of the future. How can foreign exchange rebuild its zest, and its reputation?

The headline results of Euromoney's 2015 foreign exchange survey show the leading banks have been remarkably consistent, despite the upheavals in the sector. But, beneath the surface there are changes that will transform the competitive landscape of the industry. Deeper analysis of the survey results demonstrates that’s already starting to happen.

Citi retains top spot in Global FX as clients execute more than half electronically for the first time

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HSBC hired some 500 people in its transaction banking business last year and expanded its mobile offering. The bank's global head of payments and cash management Diane Reyes reflects on some of the lessons learned.

HSBC is pushing hard in its drive into Latin America’s markets. From a DCM foundation, it is moving into other areas, though competition will be fierce.

CEO Stuart Gulliver helpfully explains HSBC’s former practice of using a Swiss bank account in the name of a Panama registered corporation to take bonus payments for the Hong Kong bank.

Before revelations about HSBC’s private bank, its chairman and CEO were seen as a winning combination. As the fallout becomes increasingly political, could their relationship be coming under threat?