HSBC in $100m climate initiative
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HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is backing a new $100m initiative to tackle global climate change.
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Businessman Richard Branson made a multi-billion-dollar pledge to fight global warming under pressure from US media mogul Ted Turner and former vice-president Al Gore.
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LONDON/SEOUL  - HSBC  has agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB)  from U.S. private equity firm Lone Star for about $6.3 billion in cash to boost its profile in Asia's third-largest banking market.
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It's the business end of climate change: ensuring that the $20 trillion the world will spend on energy over the next two decades is as environmentally friendly as possible.
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Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces a new $1.3bn fund to combat climate change.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged to tackle climate change with an ambitious target of making every new home a zero carbon home within the next ten years.Details will be announced next week, but to kick start the ...Comment
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Famed British billionaire and Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson announced Thursday he would earmark an estimated $3 billion over the next 10 years toward fighting global warming.
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Billionaire British businessman   Richard Branson on Thursday committed $3 billion over the next   10 years to combating global warming.
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A school financially backed by HSBC bank and based in a university campus, comes a step closer.
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By Sarah Jane Tribble, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 22--Cisco Systems announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by 10 percent within the next year as part of its participation in the Clinton Global Initiative.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON  - Nearly 100 corporations, international organizations and experts agreed to a plan on Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions, calling on governments to act urgently against global warming.
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TAIPEI/HONG KONG  - HSBC  will receive T$47.5 billion ($1.5 billion) in Taiwan government funds and make a major cash infusion to rescue the failed Chinese Bank, in the latest Taiwan acquisition by a major foreign bank.
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HSBC Holdings reported that profit rose 5 percent in 2006 despite losses in its mortgage operation in the United States that had led to the removal of two senior executives. The chief executive, Michael F. Geoghegan, said problem loans would take up to three years to work out. HSBC, which is based in London and operates in Europe, Asia and the Americas, reported net income of $15.79 billion for 2006, up from $15.08 billion in 2005. Loan impairment charges and other risk provisions rose to $10.57 billion, from $7.08 billion, largely because of a 20 percent increase in bad debt charges in the subprime mortgage market in the United States.
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HSBC Holdings said its charge for bad debts would be more than $10.5 billion for 2006 because of problems in its mortgage portfolio.
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NEW YORK -- British business mogul Richard Branson yesterday pledged to invest about $3 billion over the next decade to combat global warming and promote alternative energy, saying it is critical to protect the environment for future generations.
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HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest bank, is acquiring The Chinese Bank Co. in Taiwan and will provide it with additional capital of between $300 million and $400 million, it said on Friday.
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Business & money: HSBC is in the sights of 'activist investor' Eric Knight. He talks to Ruth Sunderland.