Household HSBC Watch

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 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, […]

It reminds me of the old game we played when we were kids. The game where we had to pick out “the one that was different from all the others.” Banking industry leaders (their words, not mine) are calling for reforms. The proposals were put forward by a high-level group led by former […]

In a news article from late last week titled “Business big shot: Michael Geoghegan” we see the power of algorithms and content matching. Although I do not know what the article was really trying to prove, the Times Online also suggests other relative articles. One related article is titled “HSBC profit falls […]

The issue will be approved or disapproved this Friday. Here is who would benefit and who would not benefit from a proposed pay and bonus structure at HSBC. HSBC’s chairman Stephen Green, who earns a basic salary of £1.25m a year, will not benefit from the bonus scheme. The bank’s chief executive, Mike […]

News from the U.K. this Thanksgiving day tells of how HSBC senior executives have been challenged over their proposed bonuses. Even though HSBC, “despite more than $20 billion (£9.7 billion) of provisions for credit and trading-related losses over the past two years”, possibly misled shareholders into believing that the executive bonus scheme was much […]

“Over the next 12 months we will have greater clarity’’ on defaults as “the bulk’’ of HSBC’s subprime two-year fixed rate home loans in the U.S. reset, Finance Director Douglas Flint said on a conference call with reporters. The company also set aside as much as $1.3 billion for bad unsecured loans through its U.S. […]

Traditional credit scores haven’t done a good job in accessing risk for non-traditional mortgage products such as interest-only loans and option adjustable rate mortgages, says a senior executive with HSBC Holding Plc, a British international banking giant.

In discussing trends in HSBC’s U.S. mortgage business this year, company officials this week told analysts that they expect […]