HSBC Holdings Plc’s Canadian bank has achieved something most financial firms can only aspire to: gender parity at its upper echelons.
Women make up more than half of HSBC Bank Canada’s combined board and senior executive team, including Canadian Chief Executive Officer Sandra Stuart. The subsidiary not only leads other large international units of London-based HSBC -- including the U.S., France and Mexico -- it sets a benchmark for North American lenders as an industrywide push for more women in top banking roles gains momentum.