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title: "HSBC bonus pool rises to highest in at least a decade"
description: "HSBC Holdings reported a 10% increase in its bonus pool to US$3.93 billion, the highest in a decade, following strong full-year results. CEO Georges Elhedery received a pay rise to £6.62 million for 2"
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locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/276855626.md"
published_at: "2026-02-25T08:26:52.000Z"
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# HSBC bonus pool rises to highest in at least a decade

> HSBC Holdings reported a 10% increase in its bonus pool to US$3.93 billion, the highest in a decade, following strong full-year results. CEO Georges Elhedery received a pay rise to £6.62 million for 2025. The bank's market value surpassed £200 billion, and fixed pay rose by 3.2% in 2026. Elhedery emphasized the need for competitive compensation to attract and retain talent while implementing a high-performance culture. HSBC has focused on Hong Kong and restructured its operations under Elhedery's leadership.

\[LONDON\] HSBC Holdings’ overall bonus pool rose 10 per cent to US$3.93 billion, the highest in at least a decade after the bank delivered full year results that beat analyst estimates.

After driving through one of the biggest restructurings in decades, and overseeing a surge in the bank’s share price, chief executive officer Georges Elhedery was handed £6.62 million (S$11.3 million) in pay for 2025, his first full year in charge. That was up from £5.58 million in 2024.

The bank’s market value last year crossed £200 billion for the first time in its history. The bonus pool rose 10 per cent compared to adjusted figures for 2024 and overall fixed pay increased by 3.2 per cent in 2026.

“Compensation has to be fair and has to be competitive, but it equally has to be differentiated to reflect talent contribution and performance,” Elhedery said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “And we expect this differentiation to continue as we embed the high performance culture at HSBC.”

Since taking the helm in 2024, Elhedery has combined the lender’s commercial and global banking businesses and also shuttered most of its deals and equity underwriting operations in the US, UK and continental Europe.

The former CFO has been trying to shake up the bureaucratic bank, seeking to emulate Wall Street rivals, with a more “eat-what-you-kill stance.”

The new compensation structure will allow the bank “to attract, to hire and to retain talent,” Elhedery said.

The UK lender, founded in 1865 to support trade, has doubled down on Hong Kong, it’s biggest market, with the privatisation of Hang Seng Bank for about US$14 billion. BLOOMBERG

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