Last week, Stuart Gulliver was telling associates that if he was passed over as head of HSBC he could well move back to his beloved Hong Kong, his home in the mid-1990s, to start a hedge fund. Now he will not have to. Following an emergency board meeting yesterday and accelerated approval by regulators at the Financial Services Authority, Mr Gulliver was last night confirmed as the next chief executive – marking the second elevation of an investment banker to the helm of a British bank in as many weeks.
上上周,歐智華(Stuart Gulliver)跟同事們說,如果當不上匯豐(HSBC)的新行政總裁,他很可能會搬回他所鐘愛的香港——他上世紀90年代中期的家,成立一家對沖基金。如今他不必這么做了。經過9月24日的緊急董事會會議,以及英國金融服務管理局(FSA)監管人員的加速批準,24日夜間,歐智華被正式任命為下一任行政總裁,成為兩周內第二位被提升為一家英國銀行掌門人的投資銀行家。