Household HSBC Watch

No doubt HSBC is interested in buying Lehman Brothers. Remember the iPhone mis-information? While the Australian MIS officer said HSBC could replace Blackberrys with iPhones, London said the opposite. Regarding the Lehman deal the opposite strategy is perhaps true. No word from London, while the HSBC Asia chief executive officer speaks […]

ZDNet Australia, which covers business technology news, reported that HSBC was considering ditching the BlackBerry and switching 200,000 employees to the iPhone. We did not report it because it was not important, other than spending shareholder money for 200,000 of the darned things. However, the original article looked professional, quoting HSBC’s Australia and […]

HSBC Bank Canada has taken a small provision for losses in its own portfolio of frozen commercial paper, but chief executive officer Lindsay Gordon says that, like other investors, it’s suffering from a lack of information.

His comments stand out because HSBC is one of the 10 financial institutions that conceived the restructuring plan for the […]

Over 420 votes are in and HSBC credit cards are ranked as poor or unprofessional by 80 percent of those who voted. See the survey here. However, Ken Harvey, HSBC’s chief information officer, told analysts at a presentation the bank would reap the rewards of its global scale as well as its […]

June 1, 2006–The board of directors of Capmark Financial Group Inc. (”Capmark”) today announced the appointment of William F. Aldinger, III as president and chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately. Aldinger, responsible for the most suits, settlements and foreclosures as a financial services industry executive, also has joined the company’s board of directors. […]

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Siddharth N. (Bobby) Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
Bobby also holds the title of chairman and chief executive officer of HSBC Finance Corporation, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations, which comprises the former Household International Inc., businesses. Bobby serves also as […]

Chief Operating Officer Alan Jebson said HSBC would save about $20,000 for every job it moved to Asia. HSBC runs four service centers in India, three in China and one in Malaysia, one in the Philippines and one in Sri Lanka. Vietnam could be its next outpost, where there is a high population of English […]

BY SHERYL JEAN, Pioneer Press
A handful of top executives at Metris Cos. received pink slips Thursday as the credit card issuer became part of finance giant HSBC Group, and more are expected in the coming months. Chief Executive David Wesselink, credited with turning around a company once on the brink of bankruptcy, is gone. […]

10/25/2005 — Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRAA), a company that purchases and manages portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables and provides a broad range of accounts receivable management services, today announced that Kevin P. Stevenson has been promoted to the newly created position of Chief Administrative Officer.

Stevenson has served as Executive Vice President and […]

Consumer watchdog organization Household - HSBC Watch presents these changes for April within HSBC. In our opinion information from New York pertains to banking, while information from Prospect Heights Illinois pertains to the old troubled and disgraced predatory lender Household International, now called HSBC Finance Corporation, and should be categorized under finance companies. […]