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By Sumeet Chatterjee and Donny Kwok
HONG KONG, April 24 (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc
Europe's biggest bank joins peers including JPMorgan Chase & Co
HSBC's Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver announced the bank's appointment on the deal at a shareholders' meeting in Hong Kong, confirming a Reuters report in February that the bank was close to being mandated on the hottest investment banking ticket in the world.
Gulliver also said HSBC is confident it can maintain dividend payouts in the foreseeable future and expects to exceed risk-weighted asset and cost-saving targets.
Despite earnings pressure, HSBC has retained its dividend payout ratio at a higher level in the last few years, at a time when some of its peers, including Standard Chartered
The bank may have to move "some thousand roles" from Britain to Paris depending on how the country's Brexit negotiations with the European Union unfold, chairman Douglas Flint added, reiterating the bank's previous estimates of staff moves.
HSBC last month named AIA Group
CEO Gulliver is also due to leave in 2018, and one of the main tasks facing Tucker immediately after taking over the new role in October will be selecting a new chief executive for Europe's biggest bank.
(Reporting by Sumeet Chatterjee and Donny Kwok, Additional reporting by Michelle Price,; Writing by Lawrence White; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman) ((michelle.price@thomsonreuters.com; +85228472095; Twitter: @michelleprice36;))