Exclusive-HSBC exceeds China wealth hiring targets, explores India pri

Exclusive-HSBC exceeds China wealth hiring targets, explores India private banking re-entry

HSBC Holdings Plc is ahead of its hiring targets for its Chinese retail wealth management business and is exploring re-entering India's private banking business, senior executives said, as part of its plan to make Asia and wealth key pillars of growth.

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Under a strategy spearheaded by Group CEO Noel Quinn, HSBC is ploughing US$3.5 billion into its wealth and personal banking business, in line with its ambition to become Asia's top wealth manager by 2025.

"We are the leading international bank in China, so we want to squeeze that opportunity," said CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking Nuno Matos, one of four top executives moving to Hong Kong from London this year as part of the bank's regional pivot.

"On the private banking side, we are now in clear expansion mode," Matos told Reuters in one of his first interviews since moving to the region.

Asia is the biggest region for HSBC, and the wealth and personal banking unit contributed 44per cent or US$22 billion to London-headquartered HSBC's adjusted global revenue last year.

The bank is looking to boost its mobile wealth planning service, HSBC Pinnacle, in China by having about 700 personal wealth planners by the year-end instead of the 550 originally planned, Matos said.

HSBC's wealth management services include investments, insurance and asset management products, while private banking caters to the needs of those with investible assets of US$5 million or more.

The bank had 20 people operating in China onshore private banking business at the end of last year, said Siew Meng Tan, head of HSBC Private Banking for Asia Pacific.