Originally Posted by
stanj
Possibly, if they wanted to expand their east coast footprint, but not sure if the bulk of HSBC's customers fit First Republic's focus on low-risk, HNW clients. I wonder how many HSBC Premier clients would stay with a new bank that does not have an international presence. Unless they negotiate a reciprocal Premier status arrangement like mia mentioned, I'd close my account as soon as I lost Premier privileges in other countries.
Likewise. I'm with HSBC Premier for the international presence. I'm definitely not with them for their dated tech
. Citibank is interesting but I'm not sure I want to much a bunch of investments around to be Citigold. Based on some quick reading it seems Citigold doesn't even include fee waived wire transfers.