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Stephen Green ‘staying as HSBC chairman’

11 April 2012

Stephen Green today quashed speculation that he is about to stand down as chairman of Europe's biggest bank, HSBC.

He told shareholders at a packed meeting in the Barbican that he "looked forward to chairing the next annual meeting in 2011".

Non-executive director John Thornton, a former head of Goldman Sachs, has been widely tipped to succeed Green.

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