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Korea’s LG Card can save face

HSBC EYES 1.4 BILLION POUNDS BID FOR KOREAN CREDIT CARD BUSINESS
HSBC (HSBA.L: Quote, Profile, Research) is considering a 1.4 billion pounds bid for Korean credit card firm, LG Card (032710.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), in a deal that would give it a major foothold in the country’s retail banking sector, valued at an estimated 44 billion […]

HSBC and Household in India - Behind the Mask

Kambay International (proposed: KBAY) began the road of completing an IPO, with its filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm is a global provider of information technology or IT services dedicated to the financial-services marketplace. As the name implies, some of the firms IT operations are located in labor-cheap India.

The company, in […]

Is Your Household Money Going to Iran?

HSBC in November 2002 signed a $500m medium-term project finance framework agreement with six Iranian commercial banks: Melli, Saderat, Mellat, Tejarat, Sepah and the Export Development Bank according to the IranReporter.com

Iran is firmly on many banks’ radar screens, though. HSBC set up a representative office in Tehran in 1999 after an absence of four decades […]

About Visa - Not Mastercard for Bahrain

It is interesting to Household Watch that former CEO of predatory lender Household International and now Chairman of HSBC Holdings USA William Aldinger sits on the board of MasterCard.

Perhaps Aldinger’s Household Retail Services has done enough to give Master Card a black eye. Recent developments in Bahrain revealed an agreement with HSBC, Visa, and […]