HSBC has appointed Christine Lowthian as chief compliance officer US, effective as of July 20. The announcement was made in an internal email to all HSBC compliance employees and seen by Compliance Week.

Lowthian has been the interim CCO for the United States since April 2020. Prior to that, she was the head of regulatory compliance, USA for HSBC Bank, with responsibility for leading the regulatory compliance teams that support all of the U.S. businesses.

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