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HSBC targets Hispanic, Asian Americans

HSBC is in a push to grow its lending to middle-market businesses nationwide by targeting firms that need its international capabilities. Whether these firms (businesses) need HSBC services remains to be seen. We are certain HSBC will then push the businesses for HSBC credit card processing and HSBC merchant - private label - […]

HSBC makes Capgemini look bad

According to Business Wire, Capgemini announced today a renewal of their relationship with HSBC for continued collaboration with HSBC’s Global Technology Centers. According to a self-serving press release Capgemini and HSBC are both the greatest, most wonderful organizations. What is wrong with the report? Capgemini supports HSBC key strategic businesses, including Consumer […]

HSBC online payment processing questioned

Recently we received complaints about many merchant credit cards managed by HSBC. In fact we receive reports weekly, but we wonder about HSBC Finance and the HSBC technology. One customer said “I went on line two days before my bill was due to pay it and was told that I had to pay […]

EcoSmart HSBC MasterCard or echo stupid to get one?

HSBC Finance Corporation’s card and retail services business has introduced a credit card that gives consumers the opportunity to use earned rewards to make a contribution to a variety of environmental causes. It does not take long to realize that 70 percent consumer dissatisfaction with HSBC credit cards (see our poll) indicates an overall […]

Crackdown on HSBC credit cards

When news rules are needed or suggested, cause and effect implies abuses prompted the action. At HSBC Finance things could not get much worse for HSBC, and always seem to get worse for customers. That may change as new credit card rules have been proposed. Under the plan, banks could increase […]

Michael Geoghegan - HSBC Finance processing centers cannot be trusted

One fact everyone knows about HSBC Finance Corporation, a subprime division of HSBC, is the company will not modify or change anything willingly. When HSBC says they modified 11,900 sub-prime mortgages, valued at $1.9bn, that were due to reset to punitively high rates this year it was not done willingly. HSBC Finance has […]

Neiman Marcus settles credit card suit with HSBC

Neiman Marcus has settled a lawsuit with HSBC Finance, the operational unit of HSBC formerly known as Household International. The lawsuit pertained to private label credit cards - the cards issued by HSBC Finance (HSBC NV) containing the Neiman Marcus name instead of HSBC’s name. Part of HSBC’s private label credit card agreements […]

With cheap money why is HSBC raising credit card rates?

We wonder why HSBC is raising credit card interest rates for some customers. No information is given, other than “it was a business decision.” Others call it predatory lending - a term that HSBC Finance (formerly Household International) is very familiar with. The federal government lowered the interest rates to a point […]

Rate your HSBC backed credit card

We invite everyone to rate their HSBC backed credit card at Household - HSBC Watch. Here are the ratings thus far:
The best: 14% (351)
Good: 7% (176)
Fair: 6% (152)
Poor: 14% (356)
Totally Unprofessional: 60% (1541)
Total Votes : 2576

The number in parenthesis is the total number of votes for the category. It seems like a […]

HSBC outage anger retailers, citing no communication

In January HSBC had a problem with transactions when their system went down and credit card purchases were disabled. It happened again over the weekend. Angry retailers have launched a tirade against HSBC after its e-payments system fell over on Friday and stayed down for the whole weekend. Retailers were unable […]