Sunday Papers: HSBC's Geoghegan in line for £36m package - other news

The Sunday Telegraph

* Michael Geoghegan, the outgoing chief executive of HSBC, could leave the bank with a golden goodbye package of almost £36 million when he departs next March.

* David Ross, the Conservative party donor and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, is on the brink of breaking-up his retail property empire; the strategic options for Kandahar Group include a sale of the whole group valued at around £440 million, or a £230 million sale of its biggest asset, Drake Circus, a shopping centre in Plymouth.

* Sir Nigel Rudd admits the UK's premier airport is 'now full' and that foreign investors are worried by the third runway failure.

* Works by Anish Kapoor and Andy Warhol help raise $12.2 million at Sothebys for Lehman Brothers' creditors.

* HMRC is investigating more than 200 "extremely wealthy" British taxpayers suspected of tax evasion totalling "many millions of pounds".

* J C Flowers, the US private equity investor, has recruited the former head of Skipton Building Society as it considers an assault on the leading mutual Skipton Building Society.

* Advertising chief Rory Sutherland says behavioural economics - studying how people actually rather than theoretically make decisions - is a valuable tool for advertisers and politicians.

* Partners and staff at private equity house Bridgepoint shared in a bumper £44 million pay pot last year in spite of profits at the private equity house falling by 31%.

* J Sainsbury has dispatched a six-man team to China to explore the possibility of opening the group's first overseas stores for almost a decade.

* Quercus, a British book publisher, is expected to report a trebling of first-half sales thanks to the phenomenal success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.

* Global Infrastructure Partners, the owner of Gatwick, is in talks to sell part of its shareholding in Gatwick airport to an unidentified investor.