Topic: HSBC Holdings plc
Some feared that credit scores, an already endangered species, have experienced another casualty. As we've reported before, the Sears-Kmart MasterCard offered its customers their TransUnion FICO score for free. HSBC spokesperson Cindy Savio confirms that for HSBC Sears Solution MasterCard customers, the ...
Dear Cubicle Coach, What's the smartest way to spend my tax refund?. If you're anything like us, the thought of your tax refund evokes visions of spa days and bluefly. Though I would love to say go purchase those new Louboutin shoes, ...
Skittish consumers are finally saving more money -- and now the banks are trying all sorts of gimmicks to get their hands on it, including offering some pretty nice upfront perks.. "Everyone is running scared right now," says Sam Gott, a San ...
HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, admitted it should never have bought its American consumer-finance business, Household, as it launched the UK's largest ever shareholder cash call. But larger writedowns than expected and a cautious view on the coming year, particularly in emerging markets, ...
DebraTanner was thrilled earlier this year when her longtime credit-card issuer cut her interest rate nearly in half, from 16% to 9%. In August, Tanner discovered that the card issuer, HSBC Bank, had jacked up her rate to 30%. After Kiplinger's contacted ...
Here's how you can stay in their good graces and avoid sky-high rates.Debra Tanner was thrilled earlier this year when her longtime credit-card issuer cut her interest rate nearly in half, from 16% to 9%. In August, Tanner discovered that the card ...
Underscoring Big-pharma's hunger for new products, Swiss Roche (RHHBY. Sources say dissident shareholder Eric Jackson will on Monday call on Yahoo (YHOO) to compromise and accept a mixed board that includes nominees from Carl Icahn's rival slate - perhaps five incumbents and ...
The new insurance offers protection to anyone on, or switching to, a standard variable rate or tracker mortgage from rises in the Bank of England base rate.The policyholder chooses their preferred insured rate - this can be 1, 1.5, 2 or 2.5 ...
" That was Brendan McDonagh's plea to top brass after he was tapped last year to clean up HSBC's mortgage mess in the U.S. McDonagh, 49, had just inherited a massive pile of troubled loans, and as he saw it, the cash ...
"Norinchukin Bank [reported] a ¥186.9 billion loss in business 2007 on its investments in securitized products affected by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis. "We aren't convinced yet that the worst is over," Michael Geoghegan, group CEO of HSBC, told. shareholders. Geoghegan said ...