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Archive for » January, 2005 «

Only 80 cents airmail postage from the United States gets your letter to HSBC in England. Notify the Chairman of your complaint using this address, according to advocates at Household - HSBC Watch.

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Customers have reported to Household - HSBC Watch that errors on the HSBC IVR System - the HSBC interactive voice response system - cause their accounts to be past due. ( See more ) With regard to HSBC Finance Corporation, which is the former name of predatory lender Household International, bad IVR data is an automated way of perpetrating what was done manually for over 10 years. See Shea v Household by signing in to the document library as a guest.

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., a national leader in expanding homeownership across America, today announced an extension of its We House America® initiative to fund $1 trillion in home loans to minorities and lower-income borrowers and communities through 2010. The We House America program has already placed 2.4 million families into homes, and we expect to nearly triple that number by 2010.”

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HSBC Bank Refusing to Close on MLK Day, reported by ILCA President Marty Fishgold

“It came to my attention this morning that HSBC Bank USA is planning to open on Monday, January 17, a national holiday that commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I discovered this information, I was outraged and questioned the employees of the bank, many of whom were also outraged and told me the bank planned to open on five other national holidays, too.”

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On January 12 2005 it was reported that “HSBC Holdings PLC’s HSBC Securities Inc., of New York, a member firm, consented without admitting or denying guilt to findings of books and records, regulatory reporting and supervisory deficiencies.

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