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HSBC past, present, and future in the U.S.

HSBC Holdings PLC isn’t interested in buying Morgan Stanley, a person familiar with the bank said Friday. “HSBC has made clear in the past that buying an investment bank is not on its agenda,” the person added. “HSBC feels Morgan Stanley is not worth pursuing.” It appears as though HSBC is not interested […]

HSBC wants to raise your credit card rate to 30 percent

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 […]

Does HSBC make customers reaffirm debt in bankruptcy?

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, […]

Real banks asked about “Household International” loans at HSBC

In the US Banker section of American Banker, we spotted an interesting line: “The concern was, ‘How much subprime do you do? What is your risk of having what Household (International) had?’” It was a question asked of Richard Davis, CEO of U.S. Bancorp, in February 2007. HSBC bought Household in […]

Half of all people do Internet research on mortgages

NEARLY half of all mortgage shoppers use the Internet to do research on mortgages. If your research got you to this website you have reached Household - HSBC Watch consumer advocates, a watchdog organization not affiliated with HSBC in any way. You are doing your homework, however, and digging deeply. Perhaps HSBC […]

Legal action against HSBC Mortgage Services Inc

This is another update from our friend Curtis: “Please be advised of the following. I am currently involved in taking legal action against HSBC Mortgage Services Inc. in Brandon Florida.

My current mortgage was audited and found to be in violation of TILA, RESPA, HOPA and the Fair Trade Practices Act. The loan as […]

Corrigan and HSBC’s Flint say subprime theories are all wrong

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, […]

Guns, knives, collections, and the HSBC U.S. failure

HSBC bought a failure in 2003 when the bank bought Household International. Why couldn’t HSBC turn the failure in to a profit center? Because real bankers do not understand finance companies. London was far removed from a branch manager trying to collect from a customer. Simply said, when HSBC bought William […]

Report of 100-300 more HFC Beneficial branch closings

We received this information today and we thank the submitter. They know who they are. “As a former long time HSBC employee and manager, I continue to hear a great deal of internal information from sources in the know. I’ve had 3 separate and unrelated sources tell me since Monday this week that […]

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 […]