Standard Chartered manager calls it quits after 37 years

Standard Chartered Bank's general manager for Hong Kong, the mainland and North Asia, Ian Wilson, is to retire next January after 37 years with the bank.

Mr Wilson, 57, said he would return to Britain on January 31 as the normal retirement age for bank employees was 55.

He said he was yet to make a decision about his future.

'I would like to continue to work as 57 is still relatively young. You become an old man very quickly if you stop working,' he said.

Mr Wilson said he had one or two options and would make a decision in the next few months.

Standard Chartered Bank is due to provide the next chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Banks next year, a role usually filled by the bank's general manager.