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HSBC plans deep job cuts in its UK wealth management arm as it brings in artificial intelligence, according to a press report relayed by Sharecast. About 70% of financial adviser positions and roughly half of management and specialist roles are to go, with staff leaving at the end of the month after a consultation. The division employs hundreds of relationship managers. HSBC shares were down 3.36% at 1,422.80 pence by early afternoon in London.
The finance angle is cost: advisers are the largest expense in a wealth business, and HSBC is replacing most of them with digital service only three years after it set out to hire more than 100 wealth managers towards a target of 100 billion pounds of UK wealth assets by 2030. No saving has been disclosed, and against a bank of HSBC's size a division of a few hundred people is small. It is one of the first cases of a large European bank removing most of a client-facing job category and naming AI as the reason, which is the question facing other UK wealth managers and bank advice arms.
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