Visited the HSBC main branch today located at Central. It was a nice building. Going up via the escalator to the main lobby felt like entering an alien mother ship in a Sci-Fi movie. Unless you know the "behind the scene" technologies, a building is a building.
When exchanging some US$ to HK$, the bank attempted to charge me HK$100 (CAD$13.85 to be precise). The reason: I did not (still not) have an account with the bank. I refused, of course. Ridiculous. I absolutely refused subsidizing the bank losses in the sub-prime mortgage market. As I asked for my US$ cash back, the clerk was kind enough waiving the surcharge.
Opening an account is kinda different than in Regina. The HSBC bank requires original/existing statements of another banks or utility bills to prove that you are who you are. So for foreigners, please make sure you bring your current resident's bank statements or utility bills. After the bank account is opened, you can change the address. Umm.... This type of info is quite common for Macau banks as well.
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