Financial News speaks to Roger Thomson, HSBC's newly-appointed global business manager in sales and origination, and Spencer Lake, co-head of global markets at the UK bank, about the decision to create a new client-facing role for Thomson.

Thomson, who has been European head of debt capital markets at HSBC for the last seven years, was appointed to his new role yesterday. His previous responsibilities were handed to Russell Schofield-Bezer http://bit.ly/11de9XK.