HSBC shrinks in the US and Europe

HSBC shrinks in the US and Europe

Author: Financial Times February 18, 2020 Duration: 23:13

Matthew Vincent and guests discuss what's behind HSBC's decision to cut 35,000 jobs in the US and Europe, Jes Staley's future as boss of Barclays after another regulatory probe, RBS's new name, and Deutsche Bank's disappearing compliance contractors. With special guest Philip Augar, author of The Bank that lived a little: Barclays in the age of the very free market.


Contributors: Matthew Vincent, regulation correspondent, David Crow, banking editor, Stephen Morris, European banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Emma Agyemang, FT Money reporter. Producer: Fiona Symon


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