HSBC will hire an additional 100 staff during the next three months to be trained as financial planning managers, the bank said yesterday.
Senior manager for personal financial services Juliana Lam Lai-ha said it would pay a minimum of HK$13,000 to the new staff, who eventually would serve at branches across the territory.
They will go through a three-year training period and be responsible for tailoring customer's needs to the bank's products and services.
'We are looking to increase our existing 400 financial planning managers by close to another 100. That means by the end of three years we hope to have around 500 of these managers,' Ms Lam said.
It also unveiled plans to invest up to HK$15 million in the next two to three years in a tuition programme for its staff to obtain financial planner (CFP) certification.
Yesterday's announcement comes as the bank continues to restructure its banking network away from counter-based branches.