(Bloomberg) — With the clock ticking in the hunt for HSBC Holdings Plc’s next chairman, Europe’s largest bank is speeding its efforts to assemble a list of candidates for the role.
Chairman Mark Tucker’s announcement last week that he would leave HSBC in September to take on a non-executive chairman role at AIA Group Ltd. came as a surprise to some of his fellow board members, who thought they’d have more time to find his replacement, according to people familiar with the matter.
As the board convened in Hong Kong this week to discuss potential successors, it remains an open contest for the job, they said, asking not to be identified discussing non-public information. Senior independent director Ann Godbehere — the director in charge of choosing Tucker’s successor — has yet to produce a final shortlist of names for the role, though high-profile finance figures…
