
HSBC is selling most of its US retail banking business
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HSBC is exiting its mass market retail banking business, and has agreed to a sale of part of the unit to Citizens Bank.
The British bank announced Wednesday that it was closing most of its retail banking locations in the country, reducing its current footprint from 148 branches to about 25. Those that will remain will be turned into international wealth management centers. While HSBC (HBCYF) will remain in the United States, its team there will switch the focus of its retail business to "international banking and wealth management" — and specifically the "needs of globally connected affluent and high net worth clients," it said in a statement.
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east of Venezuela – the admiral who oversaw the operation told lawmakers on Thursday according to two sources with direct knowledge of his remarks.

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings.











