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HSBC International Banking Records Now Accessed

What HSBC refuses to reveal now be in the hands of the U.S. government.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government gained sweeping access to international banking records as part of a secret program to choke off financial support for terrorism, officials said Thursday. Treasury Department officials said they used broad subpoenas to collect the […]

HSBC Violates Iraq Sanctions but Rewarded For It

Sunday, 14 November 2004
Reported by the Gulf Daily News - Voice of Bahrain
Iraqi bank contracts

WASHINGTON: The US-led post-war government in Iraq awarded business to two multinational banks fined for violating US sanctions against Iraq during the regime of Saddam Hussein, records show.
The US-appointed interim Iraqi government awarded one of the first foreign banking […]