The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
to the registration of transfers, assignments, mortgages, charges, deeds, documents or things, or the issue of certificates, or otherwise;
(j) to make deposits, enter into recognizances and bonds and otherwise give security for the due execution and performance, whether by the bank or by any officer of the bank or by any other party, of the duties of custodian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver, manager, committee, liquidator, treasurer, comptroller, registrar, accountant or auditor or any other office of trust or confidence, or any other duties or any contracts, agreements or obligations, and generally to carry on guarantee and fidelity business of all kinds, and to effect counter-guarantees;
(k) to purchase or otherwise acquire and to invest money in or to advance and lend money on the security of land or any other interest therein, buildings, crops, godowns, goods, wares, merchandise and produce, shares, securities and any other kind of real and personal property whatsoever and wheresoever;
(l) generally to purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire, and improve, manage, work, develop and exercise all rights in respect of, lease, mortgage, sell, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any of the assets or rights of the bank, or any real or personal property of any kind wherever situate, and any concessions, franchises, charters, patents, monopolies, privileges or rights, whatsoever and wheresoever which the bank may think necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business or with reference to any of these objects, or the acquisition of which may seem calculated to facilitate the realization of any securities held by the bank, or to prevent or diminish any apprehended loss or liability;
(m) to enter into any arrangements with any government, state, principality, authority, or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise, or any other bank, that may seem conducive to the bank's objects or any of them, and to
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