HSBC Premier credit card - too good to be true?

I have the US Premier checking, but does anyone have the Premier Mastercard from there?
No forex fees and the pool of transfer partners includes QFF.
I believe to get this card you need a Premier Australian Global Account.
 
I had the US checking account setup after holding the AU Premier account.
In that case, check the Terms.


To apply for an HSBC Premier World Mastercard, you'll need to:
 
@serfty I'm talking about this one:

The US may be a bit more relaxed but the UK definitely won’t.

I have an Au & UK Premier account and wanted to get that card via my UK account. It was a definite “no” based on my domicile which is Au in both accounts. I asked if they could use my credit report here to issue a card there (á la Amex) but, if I’m honest, it just seemed a bit to ‘hard’ for them to be bothered 🤷🏻‍♂️

I actually have the Premier World Elite with a £5k limit via my previous relationship with HSBC Expat in CIIoM. That account is now closed but I still have the CC.

I even asked if I could keep that card and move the cc account jurisdiction back to the UK but it was still an emphatic “no”.
 
The US may be a bit more relaxed but the UK definitely won’t.

I have an Au & UK Premier account and wanted to get that card via my UK account. It was a definite “no” based on my domicile which is Au in both accounts. I asked if they could use my credit report here to issue a card there (á la Amex) but, if I’m honest, it just seemed a bit to ‘hard’ for them to be bothered 🤷🏻‍♂️

I actually have the Premier World Elite with a £5k limit via my previous relationship with HSBC Expat in CIIoM. That account is now closed but I still have the CC.

I even asked if I could keep that card and move the cc account jurisdiction back to the UK but it was still an emphatic “no”.
I'm also an HSBC Premier customer with the AU World MC. Due to some additional benefits from MC, at the time, I asked my RM about acquiring a card with World Elite benefits attached, from one of their other markets (US or UK) based on my accounts in AU, and they did much the same as for you. Interestingly, it does show this on the UK page for the product I was considering:

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Cheers
Matt.
 
Mmm, yes, I had seen that but I think it may be trumped by the residency requirements

Poorly written but I suspect what they mean is that if you’ve moved to the UK and you’re Premier elsewhere, then you meet the UK Premier eligibility requirements 🤷🏻‍♂️

It would however, be great, if I were to be proven wrong
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As an aside, it’s interesting that HSBC don’t offer the World Elite in Au. Way beyond my skill set but I’d have thought there’d be the market for it.
 
As an aside, it’s interesting that HSBC don’t offer the World Elite in Au. Way beyond my skill set but I’d have thought there’d be the market for it.
Agreed - i think it’s only Citi (NAB) and the Citi Prestige MC which confers this level in AU. I wrote to Qantas Money (also NAB) suggesting they might consider upgrading the QF Premier Ti card (and their $1,200 fee) to be able to access this level, but the totally irrelevant form letter response confirmed how likely that is to ever happen! 🤓

Cheers,
Matt.
 
Glad I found this thread.

Anyone know whether this card can be datafed to Xero

Was prompted by Macquarie's move away from Qantas to explore other options however the biggest bug bear for me is that Macquarie CCs no longer feeds to Xero - so have been looking for another excuse to change.

Another fee free CC account, replacing my Macquarie card (And adding to my delightful fee free citi card). Happy to set up random DDRs of $9k a month back and forward to meet the conditions.
 
I believe its 6 months
how long do you need to be putting $9K through the "Global Account" before being able to apply for the Premier Mastercard?
I can confirm it's six months. I'm a month away from qualifying.

I move $10k through each month in on one day and out two days later (because I have the transfer out scheduled, and I wanted to leave a day's grace just in case the transfer in fails), and because I already had a need to move $10k from one account to another, so moving it an extra step via HSBC was a no brainer.

What was bizarre was that I got a notification for an online message for an "account" that I didn't recognise that turns out to be my personal customer number - Mrs BJReplay and myself opened up a joint Global Account so that we'd both qualify for HSBC Premier, and we both got the "You're on track to achieving HSBC Premier Status" notifications.

Having closed the HSBC Star Alliance cards (not moving enough through them to justify the annual fee), I look forward to us each opening HSBC Premier World Mastercards in their place with most of the benefits (except *A gold, but we plan to fly J anyway).
 
I had premier with HSBC about 10yrs ago when we closed the account and moved to another bank

Moved back to HSBC about 12-18mths ago, and there was no waiting period or payslips required - got Premier instantly. Even opened the account whilst travelling interstate. All very easy
 
I had premier with HSBC about 10yrs ago when we closed the account and moved to another bank

Moved back to HSBC about 12-18mths ago, and there was no waiting period or payslips required - got Premier instantly. Even opened the account whilst travelling interstate. All very easy
I must have struck the "No soup for you" local branch (or they've tightened up the rules in the last 12 months or so) as when we asked 5 months ago (with an offer of we can bring our substantial banking from Macquarie to HSBC) were told "No, you have to qualify like everyone else".
 
I had the same experience as BJ, was 5 months into qualifying and another poster going through the same process mentioned they walked into branch and asked if they could get their qualification expedited due to their deposit history and also wanted to apply for a premier card, they obliged..but not for me (I wasn't even recycling a deposit into my account) so depends on who you get at the time. The following month after knowing I passed the 6 month hurdle asked again and was approved for both premier and the card.
 
I must have struck the "No soup for you" local branch (or they've tightened up the rules in the last 12 months or so) as when we asked 5 months ago (with an offer of we can bring our substantial banking from Macquarie to HSBC) were told "No, you have to qualify like everyone else".
Curious - we were also refugees from Macquarie 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

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