What is going on at HSBC USA? On Monday, customers reported that the online banking system was down, with no way to access accounts over the Internet. That access was later restored, but the balances were still not being updated Tuesday evening. This is another failure following Sunday’s failure that effected deposits and […]
HSBC Bank USA is still scrambling to recover after its core banking computer system mysteriously crashed Sunday, preventing it from recording withdrawals and deposits, and wreaking havoc on consumers and businesses nationwide. Computer crashes and angry merchants are nothing new for HSBC. I’m sure there is a battle plan in place to put […]
A group which included HSBC Finance Director Douglas Flint said every idea people have concerning the cause of the subprime mortgage crisis is worng. Oh really? It had nothing to do with lax lending standards and greedy mortgage broker? Not according to this group of financial wizards. Forget about CDO, CDS, […]
Customers of HSBC experience the highest rates of identity theft in the banking industry, according to an investigative study released Wednesday by a UC Berkeley Law School researcher. HSBC is clearly in the lead. Through an extensive Freedom of Information Act request, Chris Hoofnagle, a staff attorney at UC Berkeley’s Boalt School of […]
HSBC Direct announced a new promotion and sweepstakes but the offer may not be very good. Since HSBC Direct is part of HSBC USA - HSBC North AMerica Holdings we wonder how much information is shared within the company. Primarily we are concerned about HSBC Finance Corporation - which is the old Household […]
Trying to play as a British bank and appealing to people as “your local bank” HSBC wants people to forget HSBC is the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank. But when one runs afoul in China regulators do not look the other way like some do in the United States. We offer as evidence the […]
NEW YORK — The National Association of Securities Dealers said it fined a U.S. brokerage unit of HSBC Holdings PLC $250,000 for failing to have adequate systems in place to supervise trading of government securities.
The firm, HSBC Brokerage, also failed to ensure that its customers wouldn’t be harmed by its routing orders to HSBC Securities, […]
As recently as one year ago HSBC refused to provide regulators with international banking information. Sources close to many investigations knew or suspected HSBC was aiding terrorism, money laundering, and other related issues. Taking lessons from predatory lender Household International, now owned by HSBC, the bank simply refused to answer questions. […]
What HSBC refuses to reveal now be in the hands of the U.S. government.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government gained sweeping access to international banking records as part of a secret program to choke off financial support for terrorism, officials said Thursday. Treasury Department officials said they used broad subpoenas to collect the […]
Pay day will be coming late for thousands of workers this month after computing problems at the world’s third-largest bank, HSBC.
Employees at 1,900 UK companies have been affected and will receive their money on Tuesday rather than Friday.
According to a company spokesman the failure was a serious problem that has now been rectified.
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