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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jack Simpson

New HSBC boss ‘ready to cut jobs of senior bankers to save $300m’

HSBC logo on a branch in Mexico City, Mexico
HSBC employs 221,000 people. Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters

The new boss of HSBC is reportedly readying to cut the jobs of some of the bank’s most expensive senior bankers in a move that could save as much as $300m (£229m) in costs.

Georges Elhedery, who took over as chief executive last month, is planning to remove a layer of senior bankers as part of a restructure that would result in the bank’s global banking and commercial banking units merging.

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