Household HSBC Watch

NAACP members are raising awareness about lending discrimination at 17 lending institutions. HSBC released the following statement regarding the NAACP to Eyewitness News: “HSBC Finance Corporation does not comment on litigation. However, at HSBC Finance Corporation, we take our fair lending and consumer protection practices very seriously, and we are confident that we […]

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 […]

Reuters is reporting that HSBC intends to open new branches - bank branches, not HFC and Beneficial Finance branches - across the United States. Quoting Kevin Martin, executive vice president of HSBC Bank USA, the bank inteneds to open new branches with a focus on New Jersey, California and Washington D.C. Plans […]

HSBC rose in Hong Kong as investors think losses are overdone (overstated), and investors are thrilled at the prospect that HSBC has a firm offer for banks in France. There may be more to losses than meeets the eye, and investors will not be very happy if some people are correct. Simply stated, […]

Before William F. Aldinger sold his company - Household International - to HSBC his logic about people and repayment of loans was simple. Aldinger thought people would always make their house payment and their car payment, regardless of how they were treated. For a number of years the logic held true. Then […]

Investors are complaining about high pay and rewards for average performance as HSBC Finance pulled down all of HSBC aorund the world once again. Throwing $17 billion (USD) down the drain has a tendency to anger investors and customers. No one likes to associated with a loser. History shows us that HSBC […]

Many lenders went out of business or declared bankruptcy, but major losses and write-downs from subprime continue. Lawsuits are beginning, as Ohio’s Attorney General tries to show that Freddie Mac duped investors by not revealing how risky the subprime market was. The risk to other lenders is high if a precedent is set. […]

It looks like HSBC’s Household International could have more company in terms of predatory lenders. The Massachusetts attorney general’s office has sued Fremont Investment and Loan, once the state’s second-largest subprime lender, accusing it of using predatory lending practices to sell loans to some borrowers who eventually lost their homes or had to […]

Many other countries have not gotten down to the dirty task of lending money for housing to people who can’t afford it and then financially leveraging the loans to create billions in false value. That’s what the U.S. has done and it has the potential to impact people around the world. The U.S. subprime market […]

What HSBC needs, Barron’s says, is a new Chairman (one who wasn’t a former CEO) and a shakeup of its board, which lacks diversity. Non-executive directors met only twice last year (vs. Citigroup Inc.’s (C) seven times). HSBC also needs tighter control over its global assets, to accelerate the transfer of strategies between regions, and […]