Safety memos starting to express higher level of caution as violence escalates. FMTNews HSBC
HONG KONG: Safety memos have become a part of daily life at big banks in Hong Kong but the latest edition are expressing an even higher level of caution as violence escalates, sometimes on streets directly outside office doors.
“I wanted to make sure that it was well understood given the circumstances,” Filippo Gori, the New York-based bank’s chief executive officer of Hong Kong operations, wrote in the memo. Across the financial hub, firms are trying to operate normally despite intensifying demonstrations since a student died Friday of injuries sustained near a protest.
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