Posts Tagged ‘HSBC’

What happens when HSBC dives in to subprime, takes a huge multibillion dollar loss, turns tail and runs away from customers, and alienates as many US citizens as possible? Wells Fargo has become the largest Western bank when measured by its stock market value after it leapfrogged rivals HSBC and JP Morgan last year.

Here at Household Watch we got our start monitoring and writing about predatory lender Household International. Then HSBC bought the predator, thus we have almost eight years of HSBC material.

US officials have launched an independent review process in which individuals can challenge foreclosures carried out by HSBC and other lenders / servicers.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A Honduran investor has filed claim against HSBC alleging that an investment described as a “Washington Mutual” perpetual bond was not a bond at all, but a derivative mortgage backed security, created by Washington Mutual, to take toxic home equity loans off its books.

LM in Alabama asks: “Looks like HSBC a/a/o Household Finance Corp of Alabama in 2008 and 2009 have numerous lawsuits which resulted in consent judgments and default judgments against the debtors.

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