Household HSBC Watch

HSBC - North America announced enhancements to the refund anticipation loan product for the coming tax filing season.

These enhancements will provide clients convenient access to information about debts that could affect their tax refund loan. The enhancement will also provide an improved disclosure process to ensure clients can make the most informed decisions about […]

Jose Cantu is all smiles — and why not? He’s holding a document he’s been trying to obtain for years. “You guys did a great job on this after all these years,” Cantu said. “I finally got someone to help us.” Back in 1992, Cantu borrowed $5200 from a finance company […]

NetSurf users are reeling from HSBC’s shock decision to suspend their accounts because their RISC OS computers are allegedly infected with spyware. The high street bank has confused the open source browser NetSurf with a strain of PC malware going by the same name, and has locked their customers out for security reasons, it is […]

An HSBC network crash left thousands of customers without cash and unable to use their debit and credit cards at the weekend.

The outage meant HSBC and First Direct customers were faced with service messages when trying to take out cash at ATMs or they had their cards declined when trying to pay in shops or […]

HSBC Bank USA, continuing its national expansion, is opening a new office in downtown Chicago to provide commercial and private banking services in the Windy City. The new office, located at the Hyatt Center, will provide commercial and commercial real estate loans, cash management services, and banking services for wealthy clients in Chicago. […]

This is an interesting report from West Virginia:
I am complaining about retail services. I have a polaris star card through the company and I got behind on my payments a couple of months and my account was sent to a collection agency called CORPORATE RECEIVABLES,INC. and I got a loan to pay this account off […]

Household - HSBC Watch consumer advocates said for years that a combination of high HSBC interest rates, questionable payment processing and troubled merchants is a bad combination for customers and credit card holders.

Add Storehouse to HSBC’s list of merchants, also known as troubled companies that need every dime of ill-gotten gains ot stay in business. […]

Sharon mentions fraudulent credit insurance in this report: I am being billed $106 for credit insurance that I did not authorize, yet HSBC is saying I did when I applied for a Gardner White Furniture credit card. According to HSBC, the purchases were made in June & August 2005, yet I am just […]

James in Colorado asks: I have had nothing but trouble from this company. I got caught up with them once before and had trouble then. Why is it that no one can do something about their crooked dealings? So far my $39 a month has been $118 a month […]

HSBC, which derived about 80 percent of its pretax profit from outside the U.K. in the first half of this year, moved to London 13 years ago following its purchase of Midland Bank Plc, one of Britain’s top four banks at the time. The Bank of England ruled that HSBC would only be allowed to […]