HONG KONG: Standard Chartered Plc, the UK bank that gains most of its profit in Asia, aims to employ 50% more staff at its consumer banking unit in Hong Kong even as it projects slower growth in the city.
“There are some headwinds and it is an uncertain environment, but our long-term view is that Hong Kong is a very good market,’’ Owen Belman, head of consumer banking at StanChart in Hong Kong, told reporters yesterday.
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