TY - BOOK ID - 134874302 TI - The Lion Wakes AU - Kynaston, David AU - Roberts, Richard PY - 2015 SN - 1847658970 9781847658975 9781781250556 PB - London Profile Books DB - UniCat KW - Banks and banking, International KW - Bank mergers KW - History. KW - HSBC Group UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134874302 AB - The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC, starting in the late 1970s, when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC's battle to purchase Midland Bank in1992, the subsequent move of head office from Hong Kong to London, and the string of acquisitions that brought the bank to its pre-eminent place in global finance today. Acclaimed historians Richard Roberts and David Kynaston chronicle the bank's struggles as well as its successes. ER -