HSBC appointed internal candidate Georges Elhedery as head of its global markets division. It comes after the bank's former global markets chief Thibaut de Roux left the company in September last year 2018. The bank's head of European operations Thierry Roland has taken on the role on an interim basis since de Roux's departure. Elhedery, currently the chief executive of HSBC's Middle East, north Africa and Turkey division, will begin the role on 15 March, 2019. The former Paribas and Goldman Sachs banker joined HSBC in 2005 and is also a non-executive director at the British Saudi Bank.