HSBC

Trade minister Lord Green, the former CEO and chairman of HSBC, has been warned he has "serious questions" to answer over the bank's failure to stop money-laundering by drugs cartels and terrorists.

HSBC will make an additional £2bn of mortgage funding available to UK borrowers, with £1bn allocated to first-time buyers this year.

HSBC has apologised to the US Senate after the bank was found to have allowed drug money to be laundered through its accounts.

Inadequate controls at HSBC allowed it to be used to launder suspicious money from around the world, including Mexican drug money, a damning US report has found.

HSBC has revealed it faces a hefty fine - estimated at $1bn by analysts - from US regulators for failing to have the right anti money laundering controls in place from 2004 until 2010.

Four banking giants including HSBC and scandal-hit Barclays are to provide redress to business clients mis-sold specialist insurance on loans, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said.

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Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC were among the list of the world's biggest banks to be downgraded by Credit rating agency Moody's last night.

The country's biggest banks have been accused by MPs of a massive mis-sale of complex interest rate swaps to thousands of businesses, the Telegraph reports.

UK banks including RBS, Barclays and HSBC are set to be downgraded by Moody's this evening, it has emerged.