Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Can anyone please tell me if we have hsbc branches here and where the branches are ie contact details ????

there is one in girne that i know of

Yes Andrew is correct,there is one in Girne,have you tried on the net for contact details,first place I would go

One in Lefkosa too, same road as where the THY office was/is, but on opposite side nearer to the Dort Yol end

Yes but are they. real or are they a franchise, this should bring some interesting comments.

Royal, I have an account in Lefkosa, now you are scaring me.....should I be???

Absolutely not Soner. HSBC Bank AS is a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank plc (the UK entity). I really don't understand why anyone would think the World's 2nd largest banking corporation would franchise out its branches. The TRNC branches are basically just part of the Turkish retail network.

Soner wrote:Royal, I have an account in Lefkosa, now you are scaring me.....should I be???

In a word ...................no.

LOL, thanks Royal, you had me going there for a few minutes.

Royalcorpsoftranspor wrote:Yes but are they. real or are they a franchise, this should bring some interesting comments.

Told You

but having said that the service they offer here is not as good as they do in turkey there nothing was too much trouble, here i think they got lucky with all the expats using them they thought they had a captive market am pleased to say now there getting a run for there money other banks just as safe are giving a lot better rates and service but i have to point out the HSBC website took some beating but i pref the benefits of better rates then website

Walked into a HSBC in London once had no counter staff, all machines.

The only real benefit of opening an HSBC account here is if you are already an HSBC Premier Account Customer where you may be able to benefit from reduced or no charges for transfers from UK.

All other banks here will offer you a far better rate of interest then HSBC, that includes both Turkish owned and TC owned banks.

There are branches in Lefkosa, Girne and Gazi Magusa but if you ask in the UK, certainly in the past they cannot be located, you needed to ask the UK branch to look under Turkish Branches at Mersin. May have changed in recent times.

HSBC here is a sub branch of Turkey, officially ran from Turkey as we are unrecognized, if you have any doubts at all, please visit Julie Dawn Younger a manager at Girne branch, she is a very honest woman and will explain all, I have banked with them for roughly ten years, and have a lot of respect for Julie as well as the branch, I also know I have the second largest bank in the world looking after my hard earned cash!

chelwood wrote:Can anyone please tell me if we have hsbc branches here and where the branches are ie contact details ????

I think the answer here is check out the other banks first, Personaly HSBC here would be my last choice.

Barbieb wrote:HSBC here is a sub branch of Turkey, officially ran from Turkey as we are unrecognized, if you have any doubts at all, please visit Julie Dawn Younger a manager at Girne branch, she is a very honest woman and will explain all, I have banked with them for roughly ten years, and have a lot of respect for Julie as well as the branch, I also know I have the second largest bank in the world looking after my hard earned cash!

Banks look after themselves,check the latest UK press,all the major banks have alot to answer for,they all pee in the pot,most of the financial ills being suffered worldwide can be placed at the feet of the banks,they have too much power,and should be held to account,Barclays' Bob Diamond,£21M salary....its immoral!

Feel much better now!!!


David