Household HSBC Watch

HSBC PLC leads the list of top losers so far today and is now at $76.87, down $2.44 (-3.08%) on volume of 1,013,233 shares traded. Part of the problem for HSBC comes from the IMF, which said subprime issues will continue and may actually get worse. HSBC became of of the leading subprime […]

HSBC said the bank would export the business model of Household International, purchased by HSBC in 2003. As disturbing as it sounds, HSBC bragged about exporting the so-called “Household Model” even though history will show the model as a predatory lender. Subprime losses in the billions of dollars showed a failure. Pragati […]

Some of us remember when Wachovia was a small North Carolina based bank. This week Wachovia hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to advise it of its options on its decimated loan portfolio. Wachovia said that Goldman will “perform analytics on our loans to evaluate various alternatives. One does not think of Wachovia as […]

HSBC Group is to terminate all second charge mortgage lending through its intermediary brand Endeavour Personal Finance, which is part of HFC. EPF was operated as a division of HFC Bank, which HSBC bought as part of the purchase of alleged predatory lender Household International. Similar to the closing of facilities in Jacksonville […]

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 […]

Citigroup Inc., HSBC Finance Corp. and seven other companies agreed to help delinquent homeowners in Ohio avoid foreclosure in the first such accord between a state and home-loan servicers, Governor Ted Strickland said. Like alcoholics that keep drinking, the companies pledged to make an effort. Banks and other lenders pledged to modify terms […]

Solstice Capital Mortgage, owned by HSBC, has closed all but the California office. They have offered relocation packages to the few good producers but have closed their offices according to one insider. HSBC is reported as saying “…as part of our ongoing efforts to operate our business efficiently, Solstice Capital announced internally […]

A proposed mortgage industry reform bill has been hotly debated, but one point is perfectly clear. The bill would add funds for enforcement. As lenders and brokers saw a fortune to be made in mortgage lending, enforcement staffing at the state level barely increased since 2003. The problem of funding and staffing […]

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 […]

The Guardian reported on Sunday, one day before HSBC is due to release half-year results , that HSBC’s unsecured portfolio is experiencing bad debt. Analysts imply that subprime mortgage blues have spread to other parts of HSBC. Antony Broadbent, banking analyst at Sanford Bernstein, expects the bank to warn that there has been […]