Morton has held senior roles at HSBC since 2002, when he was appointed head of commercial/corporate banking for Australia. He moved to Asia in 2007 as deputy CEO for Vietnam and became managing director for commercial banking in Malaysia two years later, responsible for more than 700 staff. Morton relocated again, to Hong Kong, in 2011 as regional head of corporate banking and balance sheet management. He started his current job in September last year, according to his profile.