
ANZ chief "takes home" over $10m:~
"Mr Smith's --$10.1 million -- is likely to be the highest-paid bank chief executive in the 2011/12 fiscal year.
Preamble..."know thy bankster"
--- ANZ poached Mike Smith in 2007, then head of HSBC's Asian business, --Smith's departure from HSBC was unexpected, and was a contender for HSBC's group chief executive position [note: concurrent to 6yr period of systemic issues concerning HSBC's admitted 'executive' mis-deeds;
Did HSBC "executives" knowingly break the law concurrent to Smith's "time" as a HSBC "executive".
Answer: "YES" ...and such activities were carried out with "wilful negligence" --driven by greed, which underpinned the behaviour; however --"it will apologise, and insists --it wont happen again".
HSBC chief executive officer Irene Dorner testifies before the US Senate about allegations of money laundering within HSBC, concurred --HSBC executives, in 2012, admitted to allowing Iran, terrorists and drug dealers to launder nearly USD$16 billion over a six-year period. Hearing such testimony would ordinarily make the "earth underneath...