Global banking giant HSBC saHSBA.LN +0.62%id Thursday that a post referencing bitcoin and attributed to one of its top bankers didn’t come from the bank, after all.
After the post appeared on GapJumpers, a recruitment website, it was shared widely on social media and picked up by several bitcoin-related sites.
The post asked potential internship applicants to submit arguments for or against bitcoin being part of HSBC’s consumer products.
After a public relations executive at HSBC told Digits the post was genuine, Digits wrote about it, too. But on Thursday, HSBC reversed course and said the blog didn’t come from Suresh Balaji, the bank’s global head of marketing strategy, after all. GapJumpers took the post down late Wednesday, saying it was posted in error.
(This Digits post was corrected after HSBC said the bitcoin post in question didn’t originate with the bank. The original Digits post, which was published on June 18, has been removed.)
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