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HSBC Launches Latest Wealth Academy
Editorial Staff
16 January 2026
has launched its Wealth Academy in Singapore, a learning programme for its staff and part of a global rollout across 16 markets. In September last year, the bank said it was teaming up with the London Business School to establish a new Wealth Academy in the UK. Such a move also underscores that talent management is still a major concern in the wealth and private banking sector in the UK, wider Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, Middle East and other regions. These are busy times for HSBC, which is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2025 and full-year financial results on 25 February. Late in December last year, it announced that Ida Liu, former head of the global private bank at Citi Private Bank, had been named head of private banking, taking up the post as of 5 January.
The bank said it expects that all relationship managers and wealth advisors in Singapore will go through training in the academy this year.
As part of its training programme, the UK/Hong Kong-listed bank said it has agreed with the Singapore Airlines Academy to strengthen “service excellence and client experience skills.”