HSBC may report a second straight loss after setting aside $15.3 billion, mainly for consumer loans that soured in the U.S., according to Bloomberg. Household International just keeps getting better and better for those who like red ink and losses.
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I am one of the 6000 people in the US who lost their jobs with HSBC. We shutdown in April. However, HSBC continues to waste money by sending their ex-employees CD’s to put in a disc player to view all their benefits. WE ARE NO LONGER WORKING THERE! Why are they sending these out? They don’t know either.
This was received from an employee: “This is regarding the Global People Survey. Management is telling their employees that they need to take this survey. Last I heard this was suppose to be a voluntary survey not mandatory. Supposedly there is a 3rd party that is tallying up the results. Who is to say that they are not getting a kick back to provide the results to upper management?
The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority on Wednesday fined three HSBC Holding PLC firms a total of £3 million ($4.9 million) for failing to protect customers’ confidential information, the highest fine ever dished out by the regulator for data security breaches.
How is the HSBC political action comittee doing these days? Do you remember when John Bond was in charge at HSBC, when Bond claimed HSBC did not try to influence politics in any way? That doing so was against HSBC policy?

