Senior HSBC executives, including the BBC Trust chair, Rona Fairhead, have been ordered to appear before MPs for a fresh hearing on the bank’s Swiss operation. The public accounts committee, chaired by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge, has requested evidence at a hearing next Monday from a group of executives including the chief executive, Stuart Gulliver, the former head of HSBC’s global private banking division Chris Meares, and Fairhead, the former chair of the bank’s audit committee and current chair of its North American division. Gulliver and Meares have confirmed their appearance before the committee, but at the ... (full story)