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Rebuilding Together, the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, is working with sponsor HSBC Bank, to deliver critical and energy-efficient renovations to a deserving family struggling to make ends meet. Rebuilding Together Washington, DC, one of the 200 Rebuilding Together affiliates located across the country, will work with HSBC Bank (Mid-Atlantic Region) to [...]

The following companies may have significant price changes in Hong Kong trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses. Share prices are as of the last close. The Hang Seng Index gained 0.2 percent to 20,856.61. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, which tracks so-called H shares of Chinese companies, declined 0.3 percent to 12,020.38. Banks: U.K. [...]

HSBC(HSBA.L) has braved the regulatory uncertainty over bank capital with a massive $3.4 billion Tier 1 bond sale in the United States with few other European banks likely to follow its bold move. Rather than wait for more clarity on new rules, which might raise the cost of selling hybrid bank securities in the future, [...]

Chris Meares has been joking with HSBC group chairman Stephen Green that the role of chief executive of private banking has become increasingly precarious, given the recent departures of wealth management heads at Citigroup, UBS and Merrill Lynch. It is the kind of conversation one starts with a boss in order to receive a few [...]

One out of every three new real estate purchasers in the US is either buying an investment property or holiday home. International hotel management companies have come to realize that in order to spur chain growth and brand development they need to jump on the train of mixed use developments and tap into the lifestyle [...]

Local equity markets are witnessing huge volatility approaching the last hour of trade. Importantly, local markets are defying gravity and are trading in the green notwithstanding the subdued European markets wherein major markets have lost more than 1%. Most of the Asian markets also settled in the red, reflecting the persistent uncertainty in the global [...]

The following requirements apply if you plan to bring your cat or dog into Thailand for 6 months or more by air as part of your accompanied baggage. 1) Obtain an authorization to import your pet by air. This can be done at Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok. 2) At the airport you would [...]