Originally Posted by
Mountain Trader
The fine print on the link you provided says that combined balances of $100,000 on deposit with HSBC are required to get to the Premier level, which is the card offered. For that they should have someone come wipe off the card every time I use it.
Just to make sure you are aware - the $100,000 (for the U.S. version) doesn't all have to be in banking products. It can also be stocks, mutual funds, etc. in your HSBC investment account. For the Canadian version, which normally requires $150,000 there is a little backdoor through HSBC investdirect, which makes it $100,000 of investments as well:
HSBC InvestDirect Prestige Program.
These types of balances are quite similar to Citigold, etc.