HSBC Holdings' high-profile Chairman Mark Tucker will return to the insurance sector as chair of Hong Kong-based AIA Group, after having presided over top management changes and navigated Sino-U.S. tensions at the Asia-focused lender.

HSBC Group Chairman Mark Tucker will return to Hong Kong-based insurer AIA Group as its new group board chairman. Tucker will step down from his role at HSBC and resign from the board on Sept. 30, the bank said Friday.

HSBC Holdings chairman Mark Tucker will return to insurer AIA Group on October 1 and be replaced on an interim basis by veteran accountant Brendan Nelson, the two companies said on Friday. In early May,