HSBC, known as the world’s local bank, is a global leader in banking and financial services. According to Forbes magazine, it is the second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company in terms of composite measures as of 2011. It has approximately 7,500 offices in 87 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. HSBC is a universal bank that has four divisions or lines of services: private, commercial, investment and retail banking. It also offers a number of financial products such as credit/debit cards, loans, insurance and the like.
HSBC enables its clients to perform banking activities through its online banking. This service option allows the customer to do banking transaction online. These transactions include but not limited to bill payments, fund transfer, loan applications, viewing recent bank transactions and account administration. Online banking caters to clients with advanced technological preference and those that cannot make transactions during the regular banking hours. This gives them the opportunity to manage financial matters via the internet even during the wee hours of the morning right from their homes.
You simply have to have an account with HSBC to qualify for its internet banking. It is also recommended that you use an HSBC-supported browser for you to be able to use Personal Internet Banking and safeguard your account.
To register to this banking service, you may need to have your Social Security Number, your HSBC ATM, credit/debit card along with its PIN. If you don’t have either of these, your other account information such as your savings/checking account, mortgage, home equity and/or loan account information will do but it will take 5 days for the registration to be completed. This will help verify your identity in a secure manner and will allow you immediate access to internet banking.
A confirmation mail will be sent containing your temporary username and password to notify you of access. You will then be able to do personal internet banking the first time you access it but you will be prompted to change it to your preferred username and password. Likewise, you will be provided with a security key the first time you log on to the service.
Internet Banking is guaranteed fast and secured by HSBC. It has modified banking style for different kinds of clients by introducing internet banking and a lot more that this has to offer. Surely, all it takes is effort to log on to the internet and banking is at its best.
