HSBC bonus pot swells to 14-year record despite profit hit Banking HSBC announced its bonus pot had swelled to an over decade high on Wednesday despite the bank recording a hit in annual profit as hefty impairment charges helped offset a boom in the bank’s wealth management operations. The FTSE 100 banking titan recorded a seven per cent drop in pre-tax profit for the annual year, [...]
Mark Kleinman: City would sour on Reeves after bank tax Opinion Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City PM column. This week he tackles what a bank tax would do to Reeves’ hard-earned City cache, a top pick for the new HSBC chair, and Oaknorth’s potential move abroad Will she or won’t she? The question of [...]
