In another move designed to alienate customers HSBC will stop paying interest on current accounts. Not satisfied will aggravating customers in the United States with computer malfunctions that delayed direct deposits, HSBC found a way to anger even more customers. It is a trait learned from HSBC Finance. Granted, not paying […]
Neiman Marcus is facing off with HSBC Finance - formerly known as predatory lender Household International. What do Neiman Marcus customers have in common with subprime, predatory lending, and late application of payments? Absolutely nothing, but Neiman Marcus selected HSBC Finance as their private label credit card processor. We questioned the move […]
The final outcome of Shea vs Household was as follows, and is filed in Superior Court for the State of California, Case Number 00CC12585, published March 19, 2004. The Honorable Stephen J. Sundvold presided.
The lawsuit alleged that Household imposed certain finance charges, late fees, a overlimit fees between October 20, 1994 and March 18, 2004 […]
This crime reminds me of calculated risk taking by Household International and HSBC Finance. Steal from the customer, reap great benefits, and then pay the fine. The profits far outweigh the punishments. In the business world HSBC admitted no wrongdoing and paid the fine. This guy did some prison time and paid […]
Recent problems in the subprime sector spread around the world very quickly. Then the problems spread to Alt-A mortgages. Cash strapped borrowers with second mortgages and adjustable rate mortgages caught the attention of the world. By the morning of August 9, 2007, something else caught the attention of investors around the world. […]
A long list of troubles for HSBC Panama’s General Manager Joseph Salterio grew even longer when newspaper “La Estrella de Panama” recently published an article, “Tras la pista de la Romana, S.A.,” about how the assets of a family rice milling company were allegedly transferred into another company, defrauding the family co-owners. The complainant is […]
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings has become the first major bank to say it will start charging for a current account, raising the prospect that other lenders will end free banking.
HSBC’s online banking arm First Direct is to charge 10 pounds per month for customers who do not deposit 1,500 pounds per month or maintain […]
Financial services union Amicus has condemned HSBC’s plans to cut 72 jobs at finance departments in the UK and move the work to its offshore centres. HSBC is offshoring work from London, Birmingham and Southampton, including over 30 managerial positions.
The union says it is surprised by HSBC’s latest move, which cimes just weeks after […]
June 28 (Bloomberg) — An employee of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Indian unit was arrested in Bangalore and accused of helping a group illegally withdraw 233,000 pounds ($424,747) from bank customers’ accounts, according to a police official. Nadeem Kashmiri, a 24-year-old employee of HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India) Private Ltd., was charged with hacking […]
HSBC will drop the rates on some savings products and business accounts and increase the overdraft rate on all its current accounts. Rates will drop on all cash Isas, Flexible Saver and Instant Access Savings accounts. All business account holders will suffer a drop in their interest rate and overdraft rates are […]
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