The HSBC Holdings Plc executive at the center of a row over climate change risks has resigned from the bank as he issued a broadside against corporate “cancel culture.”
Stuart Kirk, head of responsible investing for HSBC’s asset management unit, said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday he had quit the London-based lender after concluding “the bank’s behaviour towards me since my speech at a Financial Times conference in May has made my position, well, unsustainable.”
HSBC suspended Kirk days after he used a conference speech to criticize the finance industry for spending too much time worrying about climate ...