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’s longtime chair Sir Mark Tucker will step down in September to become non-executive chair of Hong Kong-based insurer AIA. Tucker, who has served as chair of the UK-headquartered bank for nearly eight years, had said last month he would retire from the board.

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.