HSBC Holding News

Friday, 4 July 2008, 5:49 am Press Release: UK Government Briefing from the Prime Minister's Spokesman on: Business Council, retirement age, letter from the Chief Whip and Hauliers strike... Afternoon press ...

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "HSBC Holdings - IT Sales Opportunities - 2008" report to their offering.

Ominous Start: Q3 starts with an early fall. Oil Jumps: Crude up $3+, returns above $143 a barrel.

The Indian economy is getting hammered. Since January, the rupee has weakened 9%. The stock market has shrunk 32% and is currently hovering at its lowest level since June of last year.

What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using ...

The bill for securitization of credit and the meltdown of subprime mortgages and other collateralized debt obligations ratchets up to $500 billion.

Friday brought a down day to the markets ending with the major indices finishing lower.

"Send money." 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 ...

Barclays boosted by share sale. Barclays is up 5.7% in pre-market trading. It said it is raising 4.5B in a share sale, with Sumitomo Mitsui and Qatar taking stakes.

HSBC Holdings PLC plans to raise its stake in 15%-owned Vietnam Technological & Commercial Joint Stock Bank, or Techcombank, if the Vietnamese government allows, a senior bank official said Tuesday.

There are rumors that the troubled investment bank is for sale. But even if someone is brave enough to buy Lehman, it would probably be at a discount.

EXTENDING ITS REACH: Profits generated from the commercial and financial business grew 19 percent year-on-year to US$7.15 billion globally last year By Jerry Lin STAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008, Page 10 ...

A Northside credit card services center will close its doors by August, leaving 240 employees without work.

LOOK SHARP: FSA chair Sir Callum McCarthy said his regulators will examine banks' bonus schemes but won't scrutinise individual salaries.

LONDON : Banking chiefs meeting in London on Tuesday stressed the potential for significant industry growth in emerging markets, which have been largely unaffected by the global credit crunch.

BANKING giant HSBC is considering a move into the retail banking market in the Republic of Ireland.

HSBC Holdings Plc. will look to fast-growing emerging markets in China and India, along with the booming Hispanic segment of the U.S. economy, as strategic pillars of growth, according to comments by Chief ...

The Royal Bank of Scotland was upgraded by two notches at Morgan Stanley, to overweight from underweight, with the broker advising investors to switch out of HSBC .

As oil prices hit new record highs on an almost daily basis, the steady stream of petrodollars flowing into the oil rich states of the Middle East has swelled to a torrent.

Pirc, the investor activist body, has recommended to shareholders that they reject a remuneration plan for HSBC executives that could see finance director Douglas Flint earn up 25m.