HSBC’s new Chinese-speaking CEO unveils British bank’s deepening pivot to Asia

HSBC Holdings employees joked that walking into Georges El Hedery’s office in Dubai felt like walking into a freezing meat refrigerator. The executive told colleagues that the unusually cold room made him more productive. A few years later, when El Hedery returned from a sabbatical, he gave up his apartment in an upscale neighborhood of West London. (…)