(Reuters) -Hong Kong-based insurer AIA Group said on Friday that it has appointed former HSBC Chairman Mark Tucker to succeed Edmund Sze-Wing Tse, who will retire from his non-executive chair position on September 30.

HSBC Holdings Plc’s Chairman Mark Tucker is leaving Europe’s largest lender to take on a non-executive chairman role at AIA Group Ltd., marking his return to the Hong Kong-based insurer.

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,