Household HSBC Watch

HSBC needs the money. If there is an possible away, HSBC Finance would like to raise your HSBC crdit card rate to 30.99 percent or higher. excuses to customers are questionable at best. With no ‘late-30’s’ and timely payments, HSBC told one customer “you have a lot of bills” and raised […]

Bankruptcy laws were changed and strengthened in 2005. Then greedy banksters, mortgage brokers, and lending companies felt safe. They could do whatever they wanted to do, since it was harder to declare bankruptcy. Nationally, the total number of bankruptcies filed in the first half of 2008, however, rose 29.2 percent, to 522,205, […]

This is a perfect example of HSBC’s exportation of the Household International model of doing business. Credit card interest rates have been increased to as high as 50 percent in India. While proud of making a profit in developing nations HSBC is not alone. ICIC, Deutsche Bank, SBI and HSBC have either […]

With the United States in a recession the double-speak is interesting. Some call the recession of 2000-2001 a “mini-recession.” Now HSBC’s Douglas Flint has a “technical recession.” HSBC finance director Douglas Flint said: “The issue now is the US slowdown and whether it enters a technical recession, and what that does to […]

A study conducted by Citizens for Equal Access to Credit found that a large percentage of subprime credit card users improved their credit rating within a two-year period. Based on a study of 360,000 card users, at least 35 percent of consumers with low-limit credit cards improved their credit scores in two years. […]

“It is clear that growth models in our industry based on high and increasing leverage will no longer be sustainable,” said HSBC chairman Stephen Green. Changes are being made at HSBC, partly to appease Knight Vinke. Don’t tell Green, however, because he wants the world to think it is all his idea. […]

Our headlines screamed: “HSBC posts Boscov payment one day late” and “HSBC loses customer for Boscovs due to late payment processing” and “Boscovs and HSBC Forgets To Mail December Bill.” Now Boscov’s has filed for bankruptcy. The formula is simple: When a merchant signs a contract with HSBC for credit card […]

Once again HSBC attracts attention somewhere while trying to get away with something. This time it is not in the Unted States, where HSBC Finance seems to attract more attention than the rest of HSBC around the world put together. GRTU is accusing HSBC and BOV of “abusing their dominant market position and […]

Global Payments Inc., a provider of electronic transaction processing solutions, announced it has agreed to form a joint venture with HSBC Bank plc to provide payment processing services to merchants in the United Kingdom and Internet merchants globally. The new company will operate under the name HSBC Merchant Services. The big question is whether […]

The internet payment fee at HSBC Finance has a new name. HSBC calls it convenience surcharge! Is a new name in the works for HSBC’s high-cost $15 telephone payment fee? As one customer pointed out (see Northern Tool complaint) there is nothing convenient about HSBC’s so-called convenience surcharge if there is no quality […]