HSBC third-quarter profit slides on Madoff charges
            
        
            
        
        
        
            HSBC Holdings has today reported a 14% decline in third-quarter pretax profit, hurt by a $1.1 billion charge after losing part of an appeal in a lawsuit tied to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, history's biggest-ever such fraud.
        
        
        
        
            
                Business
                 • 28 Oct