Sir Jonathan Evans, is set to join HSBC’s board as a non-executive director in August 2013. He has spent about three decades at the intelligence service (MI5) as Director-General. He will also become a member of a special committee HSBC created to help combat financial crime.
The special unit was set up after the bank was fined $2bn (£1.3bn) in the US over money laundering and sanction breaches. The bank has already appointed Dave Hartnett, the former head of HM Revenue and Customs, and Jim Comey, a former US deputy attorney general, as advisers to the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee. Bill Hughes, a former head of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency was also recruited when the committee was set up in January.