Plagued by God: Consulates and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank

Greetings,

The whole world is confused. The leaders, the bankers, the pundits, the peoples, and the investors are all perplexed. The Christ, God in person, is driving them towards this….”No wonder the second Psalms says that He will sit in the heavens and laugh at those  who are trying to fight against Him. He will have you crazy. It is true.

 The heads of the governments of the Christian world are confused, and they do not know that they are confused. Why? Because their greatest desire was to confuse us. Now Allah (God) has taken the confusion out of us and put it into them.”–pg.156(tfoa)

….” They have set up a head for their religion in Rome, Italy, with the pope or father who represents himself as being the intercessor or viceregent; meaning one who is second only to Christ or God and intercedes for the people’s sins and recognition of God. But he has no Divine backing.

 This false regime should be destroyed by the Christ, the Crusher of the wicked, the Great Mahdi of Islam (Allah ‘God’ in person).

 These are the days of God’s or Christ’s presence to destroy this evil world with all the deceptions that the people should again labor under a wicked and merciless ruler, the devil. The presence of Allah has upset the devils who have had and exercise total control over the world under falsehood and have made evil to appear fair-seeming.

 The so-called Christian world has never before displayed such madness as they do today. Since they cannot hide their real wickedness and deceitful ways, they are angry.”–pg.57(tfoa)

   Consulates and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank

Diplomats in London have been thrown into  chaos after Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, sacked them as customers and gave them  60 days to move their accounts.

Their situation has been made far worse  because other banks have been closing ranks and refusing to take their business.

More than 40 embassies, consulates and High  Commissions have been affected. Even the Vatican has been given its marching  orders.

Havoc: HSBC’s decision to sack embassies as customers  has caused chaos also because other banks refused to take their  business

The Pope’s representative office in Britain,  the Apostolic Nunciature, has banked with HSBC for many years but was told to  find another bank.

One diplomatic source said he believed HSBC  feared being exposed to embassies after it was fined $2billion (£1.32billion) by  US authorities last year.

It was blamed for alleged money-laundering  activities said to have been conducted through its Latin American operations by  drug cartels. HSBC admitted at the time that it had failed to effectively  counter money laundering.

Bernard Silver, head of the Consular Corps,  which represents consuls in the UK, said: ‘HSBC’s decision has created havoc.  Embassies and consulates desperately need a bank, not just to take in money for  visas and passports, but to pay staff wages, rent bills, even the congestion  charge.’

Embassies also have to pay for ambassadorial  accommodation and sometimes even school fees for diplomats’ children. None of  these bills can be settled without a valid British bank account.

John Belavu, minister at the Papua New Guinea  High Commission, said: ‘We’ve been banking with HSBC for 22 years and for them  to throw us off in this way was a bombshell.’

Lawrence Landau, honorary consul of Benin,  said: ‘We have been trying everyone, but all the UK banks are clamming up.’

Other embassies are equally fraught. One  said: ‘HSBC did not give us any real explanation. They have only given us until  the middle of August to find another bank. We can’t find one and we are going  crazy.’

Marching orders: The Vatican’s representative office in  Britain has been told by HSBC to find another bank.

Banking sources said diplomatic missions are  considered to be ‘politically exposed’, which means they are at risk of money  laundering activities.

HSBC, however, claims its decision is part  of an assessment of all business customers to see if they satisfy five criteria  – ‘international connectivity, economic development, profitability, cost  efficiency and liquidity’.

One diplomat said: ‘We don’t even know what  these criteria mean.’

HSBC would not explain the requirements to  The Mail on Sunday and merely said: ‘HSBC has been applying a rolling programme  of “five filter” assessments to all its businesses since May 2011, and our  services for embassies are no exception.’

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office said it  was in contact with HSBC and had provided a number of diplomatic missions with  letters of introduction ‘to help in opening a new bank account’.

The debacle comes as HSBC prepares to unveil  its half-year profits tomorrow(today).  The group is expected to report that it made  $14.6billion (£9.6billion) in profits for the first six months of the year. It  made $12.7billion in the same period last year.

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