HSBC names Pam Kaur as first female CFO amid major restructuring

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HSBC connected Tuesday named seasoned insider Pam Kaur arsenic its archetypal pistillate concern main and announced a consolidation of the slope into 4 concern units.

Kaur is acceptable to presume her station connected Jan. 1, according to regulatory filings with the Hong Kong bourse, taking over from interim Chief Financial Officer Jon Bingham.

This is the 2nd heavyweight enactment shakeup for HSBC in caller months, aft erstwhile concern brag Georges Elhedery was named CEO of the radical backmost successful July.

The slope besides announced plans to streamline its businesses successful a bid to "reduce the duplication of processes and determination making." From January, it volition run done 4 divisions: Hong Kong, U.K., planetary wealthiness and premier banking, and firm and organization banking.

"The caller operation volition effect successful a simpler, much dynamic, and agile organisation arsenic we absorption connected executing against our strategical priorities, which stay unchanged," Elhedery said Tuesday successful a statement, adding that the shakeup volition assistance propel HSBC successful its "next signifier of growth."

The bank's caller firm and organization banking portion volition bring unneurotic its commercialized banking concern (outside of Hong Kong and the U.K.), planetary banking and markets business, and Western markets wholesale banking operations.

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