HSBC (HSBA.L), in the spotlight after details emerged about how its Swiss unit allegedly helped clients dodge taxes, isn’t the troublemaker it is currently depicted as, the head of a rival private bank was quoted saying on Saturday. “HSBC has been described as the troublemaker in class, and it is not,” Carlos Esteve, founder and CEO of Geneva-based Heritage, said in an interview with Swiss daily Le Temps. “HSBC was among the first to take steps to regularize its clients.