By Charlie Conchie Stuart Haire has a surprising admission to make about the 170-year old building society he now runs. “When I first joined I hadn’t heard of it,” the chief of Skipton tells City A.M. in an interview. The affable Glaswegian had an illustrious career bouncing around the upper echelons of Britain’s lending giants before leaving his job running HSBC’s wealth and personal banking business in 2022. Now, however, his challenge is getting the country to take note of one of its smaller players. In a year at the helm he has set about trying to turn Skipton into a national force by posi…