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Greetings one and all. I have returned from sunny Lebanon to find that one of the country's best-known financiers is not the new CEO of HSBC. The word in the FN newsroom is that Samir Assaf will stay with the bank despite losing out to John Flint. But should he fancy a change of scenery, a rather high-profile City role has just opened up — and the last banker who took it did rather well...