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HSBC and customer’s right to recind

The following information pertains to the right to recind an agreement between HSBC and a customer. It is quite lengthy, but very interesting. The information comes from the FTC and OCC, respectively, according to the submitter. Case law is included:

I. TILA & Res Judicata
(Analogous to Mr. Curtis xxxxxx , […]

Private Label Credit Cards Financially Driven

Typically the introduction and maintenance of a private-label card is more of a financially driven decision that means lower credit processing fees and more money made off of each transaction. A review of merchants in the HSBC Finance Corporation Household International private label card program indicate many are in financial trouble. The decision to […]

Most people filing for bankruptcy aren’t lying

Household International and HSBC pushed hard for bankruptcy reform, saying filers were deadbeats and scam artists. We’ve been called worse by Household and HSBC. It turns out they were wrong with their stereotype.

In what will undoubtedly be the first of many “I told you so” reports, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys […]

HSBC Attempts to Buy American Political Process

In the U.S., HSBC was the bank with the second highest lobbying budget, according to the Public Eye’s LobbyWatch database, moving up from $2,670,000 in 2003 to $4,150,000 in 2004 — despite HSBC’s claims not to buy its way into the political process.

Consumer advocates at Household - HSBC Watch strongly suggest addressing your complaint […]

PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES UP 18%

Thursday, August 25, 2005 — U.S. personal bankruptcy filings in federal courts surged 18 percent in the three months through June from the prior quarter, as consumers rushed to beat the deadline for a new law that makes erasing debt more difficult, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said. The number […]

Bush Signs New Bankruptcy Bill - Predatory Lenders Benefit

President George Bush signed the new bankruptcy bill into law today, April 20, 2005. Bush already signed a landmark bill that makes it easier for defendants to move multimillion-dollar class action lawsuits to federal court. Playing directly into the hands of predatory lenders such as William Aldinger’s HSBC (Household International) Bush fails to […]