From the UK on 6 December: HSBC has become the second bank in less than a week to issue a stark warning on the debt crisis affecting British consumers.
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Traditional credit scores haven’t done a good job in accessing risk for non-traditional mortgage products such as interest-only loans and option adjustable rate mortgages, says a senior executive with HSBC Holding Plc, a British international banking giant.
HSBC’S top executives are to lose out on their lucrative performance bonuses this year as a result of the chronic underperformance of the company’s shares.
Seen in The Asian Banker on December 18, 2006: “HSBC is scrambling to reinforce senior management to stave off internal problems at Household International, its U.S. sub-prime acquisition made when Sir John Bond was chairman. Looks like serious problems are creeping up.”
HSBC is cutting at least 20 jobs from its corporate finance division in the latest sign it is dropping John Studzinski’s plan to build a global investment banking business.

