Secret Services & Financials Renew Their Vows, HSBC Hires ex-MI5 Chief

Was this the week of hiring spooky intelligence people in the financial industry? Because we didn’t get the reminder. Yesterday we were treated with the news of general Petraeus being hired as the head of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s new KKR Global Institute, and then general counsel of Bridgewater was reported to be Obama’s pick for new FBI Director, and now HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HBC) (LON:HSBA) welcomes its own top secret person Jonathan Evans, former DG of MI5, as its brand new non-executive director. It seems the marriage of intelligentsia and financial sector is essentially complete, and the celebrations should begin. We admit…