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Fraud report involves HSBC Auto Finance

Here is a report that details how HSBC Auto in San Diego actually conducts business. Since HSBC decided to exit the auto financing business, we say “good riddance.” This is a shabby way of doing business. We have many reports on file from years past, and little has changed. The following […]

HSBC HELOC letter sent or not sent?

HSBC made the news again. This time it was an article about home equity lines of credit — or the fact that such credit lines are frozen or gone all together. When Denise Lopez bought two new tables, a floor lamp and a chair recently, her intent was to finance it with her […]

$467 Billion in losses with only $344 Billion in capital

A total of $5 trillion of mortgage loans, or almost half of the nation’s home loans, belong to “risky asset categories’’ such as subprime and Alt-A, Gross of Pacific Investment Management Co. said Bill Gross, who manages the world’s biggest bond fund. A commentary is posted on the firm’s Web site today. HSBC and […]

Cash strapped HSBC mortgage late fees outrageous

“Even though my account is and has been in good standing — and I also pay $241.72 extra payment on top of my mortage due amount every month since I’ve had this account — HSBC charged a late fee of $143.91. This is for a standard, conventional, 30 year fixed mortgage. We surveyed […]

More resets just around the corner for HSBC

Adjustable rates will reset this summer and fall. The timing reflects the height of subprime lending in the summers of 2005 and 2006, when many borrowers secured loans scheduled to adjust in two or three years. For many, an adjustment means their interest rate will go up two to three percentage points. HSBC […]

Does HSBC’s Stephen Green show intent regarding HSBC Finance?

There is a vast difference between true global bankers who once had branches aboard the luxurious Cunard Lines, and the finance company logic of embarassed former predatory lenders. I am old enough to remember true bankers in England, the Cunard Steamship Lines, and such professionalism. I am also old enough to remember when […]

A look at HSBC’s HFC from the inside

AK in Oregon sent this op-ed piece. We are publishing it here instead of in our complaints blog:
“HSBC- predatory lenders who slam insurance, offer over market rates and fees, and treat employees with disrespect.

When I started working at HFC I was just out of college. I was excited to have a job […]

Knight Vinke knows the real figures for HSBC losses

Knight Vinke, the activist investor, launched a fresh attack on HSBC yesterday, accusing Europe’s biggest bank of flattering its US sub-prime losses by failing to write down $30 billion (£15 billion) worth of mortgage assets. Knight Vinke may have a point, as HSBC claims to have US losses under control, while almost every other […]

When your bank finds the outer limits of the law

When a bank, such as HSBC and HSBC Finance, spends more time looking at the fringes of the law while discovering what they can get away with it should alarm the bank’s customers. When a judge rules that a bank’s actions are onerous, oppressive, or have questionable intent, the judge must rule stricly […]

Lack of help with mortgages angers HSBC customers

For months we have heard of federal and local programs to help homeowners. Attemping to avoid ARM resets is the main emphasis. What happens to people with other onerous terms and conditions? What happens when they contact HSBC and receive no help? Thay become disloyal angry customers. The extent […]