HSBC break-up talk sets scene for fiery meeting in Hong Kong | Business

There were warm words last week when Noel Quinn met local students in Hong Kong who had been awarded scholarship funding from HSBC. It was “fantastic” to attend the bank’s annual Scholars Day event, the HSBC chief executive said afterwards in a post on LinkedIn, the social networking site. “These impressive young people are the future of Hong Kong, and I found it inspiring to hear about their ambitions and plans for the future.”

The banking boss may face a more bruising encounter when he meets HSBC’s army of retail investors in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Quinn and other top bosses from the Asia-focused FTSE 100 bank are there to deliver HSBC’s first-half results, which come at a time of mounting shareholder frustration with the