Hong Kong: HSBC Holdings Plc has hired recruitment firm Russell Reynolds to find potential candidates for future top executive positions, the Financial Times reported. The recruiter will look for gaps in the UK bank’s roster of up-and-coming executives and search for candidates to fill the positions, the newspaper reported. Rather than identifying successors for Chief Executive Officer Stuart Gulliver, 57, the new process will look beyond that handover to ensure there are promising managers ready to take over from the next CEO, according to the report.