In a move to strenghten its Asian presence and emerging markets HSBC decided to relocated its CEO to Hong Kong. This is in line with the group's earlier strategy to expand in Asian and emerging markets. HSBC says the Holdings will remain domiciled in the UK.

HSBC’s innovative rewrite of the classic 18th century Chinese tale, Dream of the Red Mansion, as a financial planning text.

A 2,500-year-old military classic ingeniously reinterpreted and applied for investors.

World shares tumbled Monday as the recession worsened in the U.S. and more bad international corporate news was released. In London, banking giant HSBC Holdings announced it was seeking to raise nearly $18 billion from investors and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown prepared for his meeting later this week with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House.

Three London students and a Birmingham sports science student have each won one of four £30,000 HSBC Student Bursaries following a national competition to identify and support high potential individuals starting out in student life.

Cisco announced that HSBC Mexico has deployed a Cisco Unified Communications solution that will help the financial institution lower costs by converging voice, data and video onto one network. This will also enable the bank provide better services to its customers and employees.

Britain's largest bank, HSBC, has written off $17.2 billion in bad debt after the U.S. housing market slide hit the value of its loans in 2007. The annual loss is the largest reported amongst Britain's big five mortgage lenders. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London reports.

The Household Bank Credit Card, issued by HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A., start from 0% introductory rate and go for 12 months on that rate. This makes The Household Bank Credit Cards a great tool for family finance.

According to scanner frequencies of the Buffalo, New York fire department, smoke has been reported on at least five floors at the northeast side at One HSBC Center in downtown Buffalo. The call cam in around 10:50 p.m. (Eastern Time).

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the — Back in April, at the World Bank's spring meeting, there was much talk about the plight of the Congo rainforest.