Archive for July, 2008

HSBC’s Beneficial accuses employee of stealing customer payment

DB in Tennessee said: “I am a former Beneficial employee that was terminated in 2007 for, well — I’m really not sure. I started my career in 2000 as an SA and transferred office locations approximately 10 times over my career and worked for 22 different managers, and 6 different district managers. I experienced […]

Update on Peter Gordon and HSBC Panama gang

The following is reprinted with permission. We thank Peter for keeping us updated. If you think you know your bank, or if you bank at HSBC you need to read this article. I personally think this is the business model HSBC Finance would adopt in the United States if it was legal. […]

HSBC predatory lending involves billing cycle extortion

HSBC effectively shortens a billing cycle by demanding a “rush payment” fee before the payment due date. In other cases customer service representatives (if you can call them that) claim HSBC is sooooooo backlogged with customer payments that you must pay at least five days before the due date. With reputable companies you […]

$467 Billion in losses with only $344 Billion in capital

A total of $5 trillion of mortgage loans, or almost half of the nation’s home loans, belong to “risky asset categories’’ such as subprime and Alt-A, Gross of Pacific Investment Management Co. said Bill Gross, who manages the world’s biggest bond fund. A commentary is posted on the firm’s Web site today. HSBC and […]

Is HSBC part of illegal cartel?

Once again HSBC attracts attention somewhere while trying to get away with something. This time it is not in the Unted States, where HSBC Finance seems to attract more attention than the rest of HSBC around the world put together. GRTU is accusing HSBC and BOV of “abusing their dominant market position and […]

Public outcry as HSBC abuses soldier in Iraq

When a person is stationed in Iraq, calls HSBC from Iraq, and receives their mail in Iraq, but HSBC will not wake up and do the right thing. That is the case, however, and HSBC Finance seems to think their “pay for performance” bonuses are more important than following the law. One soldier […]

SEC protection of HSBC questioned

Once again the question of protection, regulation, or lack or regulation in the United States comes up relative to HSBC. “We cannot have a segregated market where only the large and connected get protected by the SEC,” said former SEC commissioner Roel Campos, now a partner at law firm Cooley Godward Kronish. The […]

HSBC Needs Money

Other banks and investment banks looked for foreign capital and losses continued. In some cases it was a further erosion of American companies. HSBC plc is the same, although as a global bank it is easier to disguise. HSBC needs money. HSBC Holdings has met with China Investment Corp (CIC), China’s […]

Former HSBC employee says customers are not priority

A former employee of HSBC in Florida sent us this opinion: “Ex-employee from HSBC, parent company of HFC/Beneficial collections team. First I would like to straighten some facts about prior to my bashing. This company is a pay for performance company and each employee has the bonus options. The better you […]

Peter Gordon’s Fight With HSBC Published

Peter Grodon in Panama said: “About 2 years ago, because I had complained on various Yahoo internet chat groups, HSBC USA and HSBC Panama sued me for $5 million, and seized my assets and those of a charitable Foundation I had donated significant assets to. The story has just appeared over the past 4 […]