Independencia, a specialist lender to low income Mexican families with more than 1 million clients — read as Subprime — is on their own. HSBC Holdings Plc said on Thursday it is selling its entire 18.68 percent stake in Mexican consumer lender Financiera Independencia to JPMorgan for 1.568 billion pesos (USD$145 million). If […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After you take the self-serving fluff out the press release, there is some news as HSBC and Loyalty Lab form an alliance. Loyalty Lab formed an alliance with HSBC Finance Corporation’s card and retail services business to extend advanced loyalty and customer retention marketing (CRM) capabilities to retailers that offer private label and co-branded […]
The Guardian is reporting that HSBC may exit part of their UK business involving HFC. Similarly HSBC is “optimizing” HFC and Beneficial Finance offices in the United States. About 1,200 jobs are on the line. HSBC put their consumer finance operations up for review and will possibly seek buyers for the branch-based […]
HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, dropped to the lowest in almost three months in Hong Kong trading after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock on concern provisions for U.S. loan defaults will increase. Morgan Stanley expects “a significant jump in credit costs across consumer loan classes,’’ Hong Kong-based analyst Anil Agarwal […]
HSBC Financial Corp. Ltd. is closing 30 of its 140 small branches in Canada, affecting 300 employees, as it tightens up its lending practices in the continuing credit crunch. Operating separately from HSBC Bank Canada, the loan company is a subsidiary of a similar U.S. operation that has suffered in the U.S. subprime mortgage […]
Here is positive proof that a person can be successful after running a subprime operation for HSBC while losing billions of dollars. Originally with Household International, which was charged with predatory lending and later purchased by HSBC, many thought Siddarth (you can call me Bobby) Mehta was in over his head. Mehta was […]
We have many questions lately about an article we ran a few days ago. According to insiders there have been layoffs at two HSBC locations. Reports are still unconfirmed, thus you should consider this to be rumor or speculation until we see it in the news. Here is what we were told […]
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