My mother opened my first bank account at HSBC a long time ago. Then the recession happened and their regional branches got bought out by First Niagara, the shi

My mother opened my first bank account at HSBC a long time ago. Then the recession happened and their regional branches got bought out by First Niagara, the shittiest and most customer-service-time-deaf corporation I ever had the displeasure of dealing with. (And then we learned through the news that HSBC actively assisted drug money laundering in South America, woohoo) Fortunately they were then bought out by KeyBank, although now I just use a local credit union. Throughout all of that, my local tellers and bank staff remained. They are probably the friendliest and most helpful bank staff I ever encountered. It’s a shame they had to go through all of that. Probably more irate customers than I had to deal with them.