HSBC will cut 35,000 jobs and $100 Billion in assets in the next 3 years as it scales back operations in the U.S. and Europe. They have developed a detailed restructuring plan to address the low-return portfolios of Europe and the U.S. and to reshape Global Banking and Markets. There are plans to create a combined Wealth and Personal Banking business. The Global Banking & Markets and Commercial Banking division will incur the most restructuring. They have begun an ambitious simplification and cost-reduction program, while increasing IT investment. Total forecasted IT Budget for 2020 is $3.9 Billion They have reorganized their management structure with 9 new senior executives joining in 2019 & 2020 *NEW* Senior Executive Leaders This is a robust plan built around things they can control - delayer and de-matrix the organization - more agility and simplicity in the organization The rundown program is likely to take 3 years to execute, with a dedicated team now set up to execute it. - They have established a dedicated transformation team to focus on executing the restructuring - There is a separate team focused on building future growth strategies There is a 3 to 4 year plan to create a single data warehouse and heavily use the cloud which should lead to a dramatic improvement in the productivity of the finance department. And they foresee similar efficiency programs across much of the back office and middle office. John Hinshaw is the new Group COO (Feb 2020) who's got a deep background in technology and has led similar restructurings at HPE where he was EVP and managed technology and operations functions. Contact databahn to see a more a more detailed company profile report on HSBC. info@databahn.com