HSBC Holdings Chairman Stephen Green speaks during the annual shareholders meeting at the Barbican, in London May 22, 2009. Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings said on Friday it intended to continue to pay quarterly interim dividends but added that business would remain challenging during much of 2010. Reuters Pictures 5 months ago

HSBC Holdings Chairman Stephen Green speaks during the annual shareholders meeting at the Barbican, in London May 22, 2009. Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings said on Friday it intended to continue to pay quarterly interim dividends but added that business would remain challenging during much of 2010.

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  1. HSBC Holdings Group Chairman Stephen Green attends a news conference in Hong Kong September 25, 2009.
  2. HSBC Holdings Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan (L) and Group Chairman Stephen Green attend a news conference in Hong Kong September 25, 2009. HSBC Holdings is moving its chief executive to Hong Kong as Europe's biggest bank increasingly focuses on Asia.
  3. HSBC Holdings Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan attends a news conference in Hong Kong September 25, 2009. HSBC Holdings is moving its chief executive to Hong Kong as Europe's biggest bank increasingly focuses on Asia.
  4. HSBC Holdings Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan attends a news conference in Hong Kong September 25, 2009. HSBC Holdings is moving its chief executive to Hong Kong as Europe's biggest bank increasingly focuses on Asia.
  5. HSBC Holdings Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan poses for a photo before attending a directorate meeting in Hong Kong September 25, 2009. HSBC Holdings is moving its chief executive to Hong Kong as Europe's biggest bank increasingly focuses on Asia.
  6. HSBC Holdings Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan (L), Group Chairman Stephen Green and Executive Director and Asia-Pacific Chairman Vincent Cheng (R) attend a news conference in Hong Kong September 25, 2009. HSBC Holdings is moving its chief executive to Hong Kong as Europe's biggest bank increasingly focuses on Asia.
  7. HSBC Holdings Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan attends a news conference in Hong Kong September 25, 2009. HSBC Holdings is moving its chief executive to Hong Kong as Europe's biggest bank increasingly focuses on Asia.
  8. A woman walks past an advert for the British banking group HSBC in London, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 . HSBC Holdings PLC says pretax profit for the third quarter was "significantly ahead" of the same quarter last year even as economic conditions remain challenging. In a trading update Tuesday, HSBC said profitability for the first nine months of 2009 was stronger than it had forecast at the start of the year. It adds that its global banking and markets division is having a "record year" and that commercial banking was "solidly profitable in all regions" over the first nine months.
  9. HSBC Holding Group Chairman Stephen Green (L) and HSBC Holding Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan pose for a photo before they attend a directorate meeting in Hong Kong September 25, 2009.
  10. Stephen Green, right, chairman of HSBC group and Michael Geoghegan, chief executive, speaks at the news conference at the HSBC headquarter in the Hong Kong Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. HSBC says it is moving its chief executive officer to Hong Kong to lead its focus on emerging markets. The bank says group Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan will be based in Hong Kong from Feb. 1, though HSBC Holdings PLC and the group chairman will remain in Britain.
  11. Stephen Green, right, chairman of HSBC group and Michael Geoghegan, chief executive pose before the company directorate meeting at the HSBC headquarters in the Hong Kong Friday, Sept. 25, 2009.
  12. HSBC Holdings Group Chairman Stephen Green attends a news conference in Hong Kong September 25, 2009.
  13. HSBC Holding Group Chairman Stephen Green poses for a photo before he attends a directorate meeting in Hong Kong September 25, 2009.
  14. HSBC Holding Group Chairman Stephen Green poses for a photo before him attend a directorate meeting in Hong Kong September 25,2009.
  15. HSBC Holding Group Chairman Stephen Green and HSBC Holding Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan (L) pose for a photo before they attend a directorate meeting in Hong Kong September 25, 2009.
  16. Michael Geoghehan, CEO of HSBC (R) and HSBC chairman Stephen Green pose for photos next to one of a pair of lions outside the banks' hedquarters in Hong Kong on September 25, 2009. HSBC said that its chief executive Michael Geoghegan will move to Hong Kong from London so that he is closer to the banking group's 'largest and most important region' of operation.

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