Question I happily stumbled across your website and need some advice. I lived in Wales and England for about 8 years and moved back to the United States last year when the pandemic began. I am a US citizen and had been living in England as a spouse of a British man, and when the …
Question: Dear Steve, From 2001 to 2008 my husband at the time and I were going through Beneficial Finance for our mortgage on 2nd house. About 2 years ago, I received a notice from an attorney group stating that Beneficial Finance, aka HSBC, aka HSB was being sued for having clients who had loans sign …
HSBC Bank has been ordered to pay a $35 million penalty for not delivering what they promised to consumer regarding their credit monitoring product, CreditKeeper. Customers eligible for restitution include those who were unfairly billed for CreditKeeper, a credit-monitoring product marketed and sold by the bank, its affiliate HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A., Las Vegas, Nevada, …
Last week new information in the lawsuit between Morgan Drexen and the CFPB brought to light a commission compensated department called the Preferred Creditor Program. You can read that article, here. At least one commenter mentioned Morgan Drexen is not the only company to have such a program. If not, then an industry wide problem …
When if the Debt Relief Bureau, not the Debt Relief Bureau? When you get a flyer in the mail from an anonymous source promising you help to get out of debt. An amazing reader Tish sent in a new debt relief mailer through my I Buy Junk Mail program. Well here is another anonymous mailer …
Consumer Statement: Upon my husband’s death in March 2009 I contacted HFC for directions on filing a claim against our mortgage life insurance. HFC informed me that I had no mortgage life insurance policy. Over multiple calls to HFC over the next several months I was informed that my deceased husband had cancelled our mortgage …
“Dear Jon, I lost my job on October so before that My job was excellent I was getting 7800 AED salary and was employed for almost 3 years. on May this year I got 100.000 loan form one of the bank and till October I paid. Suddenly I company informed me to look for another …
HSBC bank in the United Arab Emirates has elected to participate in a plan to settle or write off debts owed by UAE citizens. Until now the ability for people to deal with their debts in the UAE without going to jail, has been limited. And while this approach to assisting people with problem debt …
“Dear Steve, I have a mortagage with HSBC for 5 years now at fix rate 5.625% 30 with PMI no Fannie Mae, no Fmac and I wanted to refinance with a lower rate no PMI. They send me and initial set of documents with lower APR for same initial value of the property without the …
Last Thursday it was announced that Laurentiu Ilian Bulat was arrested yesterday for allegedly participating in a fraud ring that stole at least $1.5 million from HSBC customer bank accounts by installing “skimming” devices on more than 40 ATMs in Manhattan, Long Island, and Westchester, New York. According to the Complaint since May 2011, the …