HSBC chairman Mark Tucker on Monday said chief executive John Flint was leaving by “ unanimous decision of the non-executive directors.” But the bank also said Mr Flint had resigned “by mutual agreement”.
Last week Iain Conn said he was stepping down as chief executive of Centrica. Although the UK energy supplier’s shares fell to a 22-year low as the company slashed its dividend, Mr Conn said he too was leaving next year by mutual consent. “It wasn’t that the board suggested [I depart] and I agreed, we agreed together,” he said.
Steve Bannon also insisted on the BBC’s Today programme that he had quit as Donald Trump’s adviser in 2017 and had not been fired, in spite of a later tweet from the US president that Mr Bannon “cried when he got fired and begged for his job”.