Originally Posted by
mugatu
Best of luck to you on your new start - I've been there before myself, but I hope the challenges are worth it

Why thank you, I'm certainly enjoying it so far. Even today's snow is a happy novelty for me at the moment
Mad_atta: if your HSBC card is a corporate card, it may not show up on your credit rating at all.
True - I have a corporate Amex and I was curious to see whether that would have any effect on my credit rating (answer = no). The HSBC card is a personal card - the deal we have through work is that we automatically get HSBC Premier status (usually requires $500K of funds with HSBC or other similar criteria) which comes with automatic credit card and other privileges - quite handy. And I'm STILL waiting for my social security number...