HSBC Holdings plc

* Bank mulls sale of underperforming Turkey business - sources

HSBC is considering exiting Turkey as part of broader cost-cutting measures under interim Chief Executive Noel Quinn, sources familiar with the matter said.

HSBC <HSBA.L> is cutting around 100 roles in its equities business with the bulk of the layoffs falling on its continental European trading floors, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

HSBC is cutting around 100 roles in its equities business with the bulk of the layoffs falling on its continental European trading floors, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

HSBC is cutting around 100 roles in its equities business with the bulk of the layoffs falling on its continental European trading floors, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd (OCBC) named Helen Wong, former HSBC Holdings' Greater China chief, as the head of its newly created global wholesale banking division.

HSBC has hired Heiko Mittelhamm as new head of mergers and acquisitions in Germany and Austria, the bank said in a statement on Monday.

HSBC <HSBA.L> <0005.HK> will suspend overnight services at 19 ATM clusters in Hong Kong on weekends and public holidays, the bank said on Friday, two days after its branches and ATMs were targeted during anti-government protests.

HSBC <HSBA.L> <0005.HK> is being drawn into Hong Kong's political turmoil with protesters attacking some of its branches and graffiti daubed on the famous pair of lions that guard its city-centre headquarters.

HSBC Holdings Plc <HSBA.L> and JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N> accessed the high-speed audio feed of central bank press conferences that is in the midst of a probe by the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority, the Financial Times reported https://on.ft.com/2rdGbNk...

The Swiss private banking unit of HSBC Holdings Plc will pay $192.4 million in penalties to settle a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the bank helping its U.S. clients conceal assets abroad and evade taxes, the agency said on Tuesday.

** French daily Les Echos reports that HSBC has told French union members on Monday afternoon that selling its French retail arm has become a priority. Paper reports that the bank wants to take a decision by end of April

HSBC <HSBA.L> has named Georges Elhedery and Greg Guyett as co-heads of the global banking and markets division, which contains the lender's troubled investment banking business, as part of a reshuffle under interim Chief Executive Noel Quinn.

HSBC has named Georges Elhedery and Greg Guyett as co-heads of the global banking and markets division, which contains the lender's investment banking business.

Britain's competition watchdog said HSBC <HSBA.L> and Santander UK <SANS_pa.L> had agreed to refund customers after they broke a legal order that ensures customers receive text alerts before banks charge them for going into an unarranged overdraft.

Britain's competition watchdog said HSBC and Santander UK had agreed to refund customers after they broke a legal order that ensures customers receive text alerts before banks charge them for going into an unarranged overdraft.

HSBC aims to shift $20 billion (£15 billion) worth of assets to a new blockchain-based custody platform by March, in one of the biggest deployments yet of the widely-hyped but still unproven technology by a global bank.

Steel, the biggest industrial contributor to climate change, needs innovative financing such as "transition bonds" to help pay the massive costs of turning green, the head of HSBC's sustainable think tank said.

HSBC <HSBA.L> will soon announce it is replacing investment banking head Samir Assaf as part of a broader set of forthcoming senior management changes, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.