American analogies might scare HSBC investors after the Asia-focused bank’s disastrous foray into US consumer finance. Yet its much-vaunted restructuring plan most closely resembles a classic three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust play – the grinding American football strategy where every yard of progress is hard fought. Seven months into chief executive Stuart Gulliver’s three-year plan, there is dust aplenty.
立足亞洲的滙豐銀行(HSBC)進軍美國消費金融領域的努力慘敗之後，滙豐的投資者們一想到美國可能就會害怕。然而，滙豐大肆吹噓的重組計劃，卻很像美國橄欖球比賽中一種寸土必爭的戰略，這種戰略被形象地叫做「三碼之地內塵土飛揚(three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust)」。滙豐執行長歐智華(Stuart Gulliver)的三年計劃如今已過去7個月，塵土滾滾，戰鬥正酣。
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