UK household debt could rise to 1990s levels - 2004-03-23
The load of households' debt service will go back towards the levels seen at the start of the 1990s if interest rates climb in the way financial markets expect, a deputy governor of the Bank of England has warned.

Interest and mortgage payments rose to almost 16 per cent of household post-tax income in 1990, helping trigger the crash in house prices and the recession of the early 1990s.
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HSBC Bank moving legal headquarters to Delaware - 2004-03-23
After more than 190 years in Buffalo, HSBC Bank USA plans to relocate its legal headquarters to Delaware as it looks to change to a national charter and become a nationwide banking power.

HSBC now employs 5,300 people in the Buffalo area, and Glynn said the bank already has been moving more collections, compliance, mortgage and computer jobs here.
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