Philip Chua Business Blog » press release http://philipchua.com/Blog Master Your Financial IQ Today! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 That new HSBC loan: too clever by half? http://philipchua.com/Blog/that-new-hsbc-loan-too-clever-by-half/ http://philipchua.com/Blog/that-new-hsbc-loan-too-clever-by-half/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:56:49 +0000 News Feed http://philipchua.com/Blog/that-new-hsbc-loan-too-clever-by-half/ That new HSBC loan: too clever by half?
Why not give customers the money outright?

By SIOW LI SEN

LAST Friday, when given the HSBC press release on its new Sibor plus equity-linked mortgage, I spent at least 15 minutes trying to figure out how it worked. The result was that I was so consumed with the promise of thousands of dollars that I paid no attention to the home loan itself.

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