Editing HSBC (section)

===International expansion===
[[File:After the Bishopsgate Bomb of 1993 - geograph.org.uk - 653979.jpg|thumb|Tower at [[99 Bishopsgate]], HSBC's main London office from 1976 to 1993 and occupied by the bank until its move to [[Canary Wharf]] in 2002-2003]]
[[File:HK HSBC Main Building 2008.jpg|thumb|[[HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong]], designed by [[Norman Foster (architect)|Norman Foster]] and completed in 1985 on the same location as the 1886 and 1936 predecessors]]

[[Michael Turner (banker)|Michael Turner]] became chief manager in 1953 and set about diversifying the business. His tenure came to an end in 1962 having established The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of California 1955 and having acquired [[HSBC Bank Middle East|The British Bank of the Middle East]] and the [[Mercantile Bank of India, London and China|Mercantile Bank]] (based in India) in Aug 1959. Turner was succeeded in 1962 by [[Jake Saunders]]. In 1964 the Chief Managership was superseded as the top executive role in the bank by an Executive Chairmanship.<ref>{{cite book| first=Maurice| last=Collis| title=Wayfoong: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation| publisher=Faber and Faber| location=London| year=1965| oclc=2865302| page=251}}</ref>

During the [[Konfrontasi]] period in the 1960s, a group of Indonesian forces [[MacDonald House bombing|bombed the MacDonald House building]] in Singapore (at the time used by HSBC) just a few months after Singapore was granted its independence from Malaysia. Three people were killed, 33 injured, and the two Indonesian military officers responsible for the bombing were tried and executed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/02/13/macdonald-house-attack-still-strikes-home-spore.html|title=MacDonald House attack still strikes home in S'pore|website=The Jakarta Post}}</ref>

The present building in Hong Kong was designed by [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Sir Norman Foster]] and was held as one of the most expensive and technologically advanced buildings in the world in 1986, costing HK$5.3&nbsp;billion.<ref name="Lim" />