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HSBC strips out management layers to ‘reduce hierarchy’

Bank looks to follow rivals by streamlining structure
Bank looks to follow rivals by streamlining structure Photo: Getty Images/Budrul Chukrut

HSBC is shaking up its senior ranks in a bid to shed its "hierarchical" structure and bring its reporting lines more in line with its European and Wall Street rivals.

The UK lender will be scrapping some titles for its most senior ranks, instead whittling it down to three job bands, according to an internal memo from chief executive Noel Quinn seen by Financial News.

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