Irene Dorner is the CEO of HSBC bank in the USA. An Oxford-trained lawyer, Dorner has spent most of her lifetime in her career at the HSBC, where she was transferred to New York in 2010 to help the bank to regroup in The USA. It feels real when Dorner, who have scaled the heights of success to be the chief executive officer of this great bank which has been deteriorating since the year 2003 due to some missteps that were made by the leaders before her. She has successfully been on the limelight to see to it that the bank regains its original status of being an adorable bank in the USA.  The bank had suffered a major problem in 2003 due to purchasing the subprime lender Household International. It has also gone through more recent problems that include amenability with the anti-money laundering rules.

Achieving Financial Freedom

Achieving financial freedom is an easy or a hard task depending on an individual. It all entails your perspective towards all this. There are very many rich and successful individuals out there who have truly achieved this freedom. Here are a few secrets that these people have used to gain the financial freedom that they do currently enjoy.

Starting a business or an investment may sound simple. There are those who have had crazy business ideas and they have thought that they can implement their ideas in a big way and become successful overnight. This has been on of a source of failure for these people and their businesses. It has always been advisable that however big an idea is, it is very important that you start it small then gradually expand it as it grows. A successful investment or a business does not entail how big or good the initial idea was, it involves the way the idea is implemented and the proper way of implementing the idea. Successful businesses started with the owners actively being involved in their nurturing and growth till they become to them a source of passive income as they continually go on growing.

Barbara Byrne

Barbara Byrne is the vice chair in charge of investment banking bat the Barclays Capital. She had earlier worked at the managing director of the energy investment department bat the Lehman Brothers. It is at this position where she had been asked to surrender the accounts that she was managing and shift her focus on building a run through in larger cap technology companies. She was at first reluctant to do this and even declined the offer. She was later to accept the offer, a decision she terms as the one which has thrust her to her current position at the institution. She at first took it half-heartedly thinking that it was the biggest challenge that she was to undertake but later found out that it is here that she was to succeed immensely.

 This big challenge that she undertook has seen her succeed to extremely great heights, more than the success that she had achieved at the Lehman Brothers for over 28 years that she worked there. Her success at the current position can be termed as very great for it has been observed for only the 10 years that she has worked there. At the institution, she is tasked with leading the relationships of the firm with a distributed group of corporate customers.