It has been ten years since consumer advocates started Household - HSBC Watch. Sometimes we wonder where the years went. Ten years ago we started a single web page on a free server. Now we have over 3000 visitors every day. Part of the traffic obviously is a result of the […]
There is more to HSBC’s subprime fallout around the world. The American dollar is tumbling around the world. On Thursday it reached parity with the Canadian dollar for the first time in 30 years and hit its lowest level yet against the euro, also dipping relative to the British pound and hitting […]
It is tax time again, and when people Google the search term ‘household bank ral’ Household - HSBC Watch comes in at the top spot with our article ‘HSBC Bank Charged With Racketeering’. We make every effort to level the playing field, given that we are all volunteers and HSBC is one of the […]
The bank reporting season threw up mixed views on Britain: HBOS dismissed fears that the country was facing a consumer debt crisis while HSBC, the world’s second biggest bank, branded the UK its most difficult market due to a weaker economy and an increasing number of borrowers struggling to pay off loans. “In the […]
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Household International’s political action website at HSBC Government Relations now has Chairman Siddharth N. (Bobby) Mehta’s picture to greet web visitors which are supposed to be HSBC employees, but the site is available to everyone around the world. “Dear Colleague” says the website. William F. (Bill) Aldinger’s […]
A recent visit to Household International’s political action website at www.hihsbcgr.com shows that William F. (Bill) Aldinger’s photograph no longer greets web visitors. Still bearing the HI name, this part of HSBC was, and still is, in violation of HSBC corporate policy according to Sir John Bond. In fact Bond said HSBC does […]
Did HSBC’s purchase of predatory lender Household International have an effect on perceptions of HSBC? Household - HSBC Watch says it is is possible as they report a 600 percent increase in visitors from Asia and the Pacific Rim.
March 21 (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc, the biggest corporate lender in the Asia-Pacific […]
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For more than a month, volunteers at watchdog website Household - HSBC Watch (this website) watched our Live Help monitor as a record number of visitors researched hrsaccount in an effort to pay their bill online. Feeling helpless as we knew what […]
Consumer watchdog organization Household - HSBC Watch selected Stanaphone to power their consumer advocacy center voice line. Using VON (voice over the net) technology, volunteers can staff the advocacy center 24 hours a day by making the phone number portable. Similar to having an internet phone on your laptop which operates wherever your […]
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