Archive for March, 2005
March 30, 2005: Saks has been considering the separation of its upscale Saks Fifth Avenue stores from its moderate department store division, retail investment bankers have said. Saks’ stock jumped on Tuesday after retail industry publication Women’s Wear Daily reported that the company is looking for buyers for its 235-unit department store group, with […]
March 30th, 2005 | Posted in 05 Private Label, 05 HSBC - U.S., 05 All Articles | 1 Comment
Linda wrote:
Lisa Ming, of URA, continually calls my phone number late at night after I have gone to bed about a debt my daughter has with Household. Lisa is rude and will call sometimes 2-3 times an evening. She has the cell number for my daughter but says she will continue to call me every […]
March 30th, 2005 | Posted in 05 All Articles, 05 United Recovery | No Comments
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill., March 29 /PRNewswire/ — HSBC - North America announced today the appointment of Lee Whatcott as chief financial officer of HSBC Auto Finance, effective immediately. Whatcott will lead the financial accounting and management efforts for the business, which provides auto financing through thousands of active auto dealer relationships and direct-to- consumer channels. […]
March 30th, 2005 | Posted in 05 AutoFinance, 05 All Articles | No Comments
For those who want to see the attention Household International and HSBC predatory lending is getting simply go to this page. Watchdog organization Household - HSBC Watch started geographical mapping of visitors, which poses no privacy or security issues for visitors. “Mapping gives federal regulators a visual picture of how wide spread the […]
March 29th, 2005 | Posted in Programming, History of Predatory Lending, Technical, 05 HSBC - U.S., 05 All Articles | 2 Comments
29 March 2005 - HSBC could face a wave of damaging strikes across its UK branches and call centres beginning on 27 May after negotiations over a pay dispute failed.
Senior representatives of Amicus, Britain’s biggest private-sector union, from across HSBC have held a council of war to plan a series of one-day strikes, with the […]
March 29th, 2005 | Posted in HSBC Global, 05 All Articles | No Comments
NEW YORK, Mar 24, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) — HSBC Bank USA, N.A. has opened its downtown Los Angeles office and West Coast headquarters at 660 S. Figueroa Street in Los Angeles as part of its continuing expansion in California. The bank recently opened its Pasadena office and has plans to continue to grow in the […]
March 28th, 2005 | Posted in 05 HSBC - U.S., 05 Aldinger, 05 All Articles | No Comments
[World News] CHICAGO, March 18 : A Chicago-area electronics store employee who sent lewd photos and e-mail threats to a woman who had a laptop repaired was sentenced to four years.
Gregory Schaffter worked at a Best Buy store in Schaumburg, Ill.,, northwest of Chicago, when the young woman brought her computer in for repair. […]
March 27th, 2005 | Posted in 05 BestBuy, 05 HSBC - U.S., 05 All Articles | 1 Comment
MALAYSIAN students in need of financial aid are invited to apply for scholarship awards by HSBC Bank Malaysia. This is the fourth consecutive year that the bank is offering scholarships to students from the lower income group. To be eligible for the HSBC scholarship, students must be aged between 18 and 25 years. […]
March 27th, 2005 | Posted in HSBC Global, 05 HSBC - U.S., 05 All Articles | No Comments
Consumer watchdogs at Household - HSBC Watch made a free web page available to those that want to support the advocacy program. The page is a complete single html page that requires no knowledge of programming. It can be copied from this location. The page is for those that want to inform […]
March 26th, 2005 | Posted in Ways You Can Help, Technical, 05 All Articles | No Comments
The Rock has won its past three games in Buffalo and is 7-2 as a franchise at HSBC. The Bandits never have won a season series against the Rock. From the National Lacrosse League (NLL) we discovered interesting news about the Buffalo Bandits and HSBC.
“We couldn’t resist a smile as we saw a […]
March 26th, 2005 | Posted in 05 HSBC - U.S., 05 All Articles | No Comments