HSBC Quarterly Profit Falls; CEO to Retire — Update
By Kosaku Narioka
HSBC posted a drop in first-quarter net profit and said its Group Chief Executive Noel Quinn would retire from the company.
HSBC said net profit fell 1.4% to $10.18 billion for the three months ended March, attributing the result partly to lower net interest income, higher credit costs and one-off losses related to its plan to sell its Argentina business.
Quarterly net profit beat the estimate of $9.73 billion in a poll of analysts by Visible Alpha.
The London-based bank also said that its group CEO will step down after nearly five years in the role and that the board had begun a formal process to find a successor.
Net interest income fell to $8.65 billion from $8.96 billion.
The bottom line in the year-earlier period was buoyed by one-off gains related to the sale of its retail banking operations in France and the acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank's U.K. unit.
Quarterly net profit was nonetheless an improvement from net loss in the final quarter of 2023, when HSBC wrote down the value of its stake in major Chinese lender Bank of Communications by $3 billion, in part because of a slowdown in China's economic growth.
Write to Kosaku Narioka at kosaku.narioka@wsj.com
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April 30, 2024 00:56 ET (04:56 GMT)
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