Day: May 22, 2020

HSBC Joins World’s Top Banks, Raises Bad Loan Reserves, And Profit Misses Estimates

HSBC Joins World’s Top Banks, Raises Bad Loan Reserves, And Profit Misses Estimates

Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC, has raised its bad-loan reserves by a whopping $3.03 billion for the first quarter of 2020, an exchange filing submitted at the end of April shows.   This will be the bank’s highest bad-debt reserve level in nine years, the clearest indication yet that the current economic crisis could be worse