The payment protection insurance scandal, which has totalled £34bn is expected to ease off.
Douglas Flint says Panama Papers highlight how legal corporate structures can be abused.
Mortgage lenders, including HSBC and Halifax, tell IBTimes UK they do not plan to make criteria stricter.
The UK will hold a referendum on European Union membership on 23 June.
UK lenders refute allegations of any wrongdoing.
Banks are named in the Panama Papers but claim they have never sought to help customers avoid paying taxes.
Global analytics software firm Fico says that organised criminals are behind the hijacked SIM cards.
The UK government is urging companies to participate in improving gender balance at workplaces.
The new chairman would select a new chief executive to succeed Stuart Gulliver.
New measures by the ECB means Eurozone banks are catching up with British peers.
Venture fund BGF is backed by Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and RBS.
The move will increase competition and allow new entrants into the payments processing industry.
HSBC warns a potential decline in the pound could push the inflation rate up by as much as 5%.
HSBC reported a pay cut for Stuart Gulliver, its chief executive, from £7.6m to £7.3m.
Pre-tax profit grows 1% but falls short of expectations as lender warns of a bumpy road ahead in China.
Up to 15 million HSBC customers will no longer need to remember PIN numbers and passwords to access accounts
Reckitt Benckiser, IAG and Standard Chartered were the biggest riser on the FTSE 100.
The number of jobs shifted to Paris would depend on the terms of the Brexit deal.
London remains 'ideally positioned to be the home base' for HSBC, the lender has said.
IBTimes UK has listed 20 big businesses with, perhaps, surprising headquarters locations.
Family members of those killed by drug cartels to sue bank under the US Anti-Terrorism Act.
HSBC's decision on the move is expected to come well ahead of its full-year reports out on 22 February.