Reborn Capital Madman

After Huang Zixiang, the "landmine", was "snatched" by Huifeng and buried under his feet, the Huang family did not get carried away and hated Gao Yi, because on the one hand they did not dare, and on the other hand the subsequent rumors confirmed Gao Yi's refusal.

Huang Zixiang's loan was indeed justified, and it was not because he looked down on the Huang family, thus consolidating the effect of not daring.

The financing was done so beautifully that Huang Zixiang must take credit in front of his father Huang Tingfang. Huang Tingfang was naturally very satisfied and decided without thinking that the bidding for the land would be left to his eldest son.

Huang Zixiang felt happy, secretly thinking about how much money he could transfer to his company to invest in Hang Seng Index stock futures. If he came back empty-handed, he could transfer more funds.

At this time, Ng Teng Fong's second son Ng Chi Tat brought news that the Khoo Teck Puat family was indeed raising funds, but it was not for real estate projects that might compete with us in the Singapore and Malaysia markets, but to acquire Standard Chartered Bank.

"Acquire Standard Chartered Bank?" Huang Zixiang asked in surprise: "Has the Qiu family's trouble in Brunei been resolved? What's more, Standard Chartered Bank is not an ordinary commercial bank."

"This news is generally correct." Huang Zida replied: "I heard in London that Lloyds Bank, one of the four traditional clearing banks in the UK, suddenly launched a forced acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank. Standard Chartered Bank was unable to resist.

Qiu Deba then joined forces with two other consortiums to acquire the shares of Standard Chartered Bank as a white warrior to protect the independent status of Standard Chartered Bank."

Huang Zixiang suddenly realized, "So, Ye Licheng really didn't lie to me. The Gao Bank Group is concentrating its efforts to support Qiu Deba's acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank. Such a fight between two tigers, without tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, has no chance of winning.

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Huang Tingfang pondered: "Do you know which two consortiums Qiu Deba has united with?"

"I heard it's Bao Yugang from Xiangjiang and Robert Home from Australia." Huang Zida replied: "Robert Home is fine. After all, Qiu Deba has a hotel business in Australia and has accumulated some money.

connections

, not surprising, but last year Bao Yugang fought with Qiu Deba for Wheelock. In the end, Qiu Deba came back defeated. Why is this scene still vivid in his mind? Now Qiu Deba and Bao Yu

Just joined forces?"

"In order to acquire a bank headquartered in London, three regions closely related to the United Kingdom, a Singaporean consortium, a Hong Kong consortium, and an Australian consortium, came together. It is a perfect match." Huang Tingfang waved his hand.

, "Every family has its own way of making money. If people want to be in the limelight, it has nothing to do with us. The water is very deep here. Just watch from a distance."

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Everyone in the Huang family knew that Qiu Deba had joined the Standard Chartered Bank acquisition battle. Obviously, Hui Feng only knew more details. For example, Qiu Deba's family alone received a HKD 3 billion from the Gao Bank consortium.

With a loan, there are more things to consider.

After hearing the news, Huifeng Taipanpu Weishi was overwhelmed.

The reason is obvious. In Hong Kong's banking industry, Hui Feng Bank Group, Gao's Bank Group and Standard Chartered Bank Group stand on top of each other.

On the surface, Qiu Deba took the lead and acquired Standard Chartered Bank as a white warrior, but its source of funds cannot be ignored. Once Qiu Deba, Bao Yugang and others successfully obtained the controlling stake of Standard Chartered Bank, then the influence of Gao's Banking Group

, it must have penetrated over time, and among the top three banks in Hong Kong, the second and third places are secretly communicating with each other. No matter how strong the first place is, it will be uncomfortable.

It is best to destroy such potential threats quietly.

After thinking about it for a long time, Pu Wei Shi decided that he would have to ask Shen Bi, the former Huifeng chief executive who retired a few months ago and is now Huifeng's consultant, to secretly help with this matter. It's not because Huifeng has no one in London to use it. But after all, Shen Bi served as Huifeng's top class, and the pattern was there, so he could solve the problem more thoughtfully.

Shen Bi, who was in a state of exerting his spare energy, was in a more complicated mood than Pu Wei Shi, because at this time, Lloyds Bank, which took the lead in launching a hostile takeover of Standard Chartered Bank, had ruined his own good things before.

After taking office, Shen Bi completed the North American market part of Huifeng's international "triangle stool" strategy, that is, after successfully acquiring the American Ocean Millennium Bank, he turned his international attention to the United Kingdom and took a fancy to the Royal Bank of Scotland.

At that time, both Lloyds Bank and Standard Chartered Bank were competitors, and they were trying to acquire the Royal Bank of Scotland. However, the noise was so loud that it alarmed the British Monopolies and Mergers Commission. In the end, Masaharu waved his hand, and the hope of acquisition was suppressed. It was forcibly shot down.

Now that Lloyds Bank has taken advantage of Standard Chartered Bank, Shen Bi is secretly happy to see it, but Standard Chartered Bank's status in Hong Kong's banking industry is not low. If it is acquired by the more powerful Lloyds Bank, it will mean that Hong Kong The banking industry's structure, which originally allowed Huifeng to operate with ease, will inevitably change, which is unacceptable.

Of course, Shen Bi also didn't want to see Qiu Deba and Bao Yugang obtain controlling shares of Standard Chartered Bank as white warriors. Just as Pu Wei Shi was worried, the financial backer behind them was obviously Gao's Bank. Although the consortium is not as harmful as Lloyds Bank, it must be guarded against.

After communicating with Pulvis, Shen Bi used resources to contact Anthony Barber, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Michael McWilliam, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Group, so that he could meet with them and explain his interests.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the current situation of Standard Chartered Bank Group in terms of life and death, because Lloyds Bank did not have any good intentions in forcibly acquiring Standard Chartered Bank.

You must know that large traditional commercial banks in old capitalist countries like Lloyds Bank can rarely avoid the pitfall of the Latin American sovereign debt crisis, because after the outbreak of the world oil crisis in the 1970s, those Latin American countries rich in oil resources When the country took advantage of the opportunity to rise, it aggressively entered the Latin American market. It had various advantages including its colonial historical origins, making it easy to make money and get into deep trouble.

Under such circumstances, Lloyds Bank's forced acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank can be described as full of malicious intent, and it is purely based on expansion and development.

Standard Chartered Bank is like the previously split Cable and Telegraph Group. Although its headquarters and first stock listing place are in London, its business mainly relies on the British overseas market. Specifically, for Standard Chartered Bank, the contribution of British overseas business is as high as 9%. Ten, among which Xiangjiang has contributed a lot.

It is completely foreseeable that once Lloyds Bank, one of the five traditional clearing banks in the UK, successfully acquires Standard Chartered Bank, it will definitely rely on its size advantage to retain only those assets that are complementary to itself. To put it bluntly, Standard Chartered Bank London Not many of the ghost guys who were supported at the headquarters can stay.

It is precisely because of such interests that Standard Chartered Bank has a strong sense of resistance to the forced acquisition of Lloyds Bank. During the meeting with Shen Bi, Anthony Barber made it clear that Standard Chartered Bank welcomes consortiums from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia. , acting as the white warrior in this acquisition war.

Shen Bi asked with a bad heart, "Have you ever considered who is the real white knight in the Standard Chartered Bank acquisition war?"

After all, Anthony Barber was once a mature politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British Heath government more than ten years ago. He can be described as wily and quite calm.

But Michael McWilliam could not hide his arrogance in front of his old rival, "Sir Shen Bi means, we understand that if Lloyds Bank takes control of Standard Chartered Bank, it will be difficult for us to resist, If it were Qiu Deba, Bao Yugang, and the Gao Banking Group behind them, we would be able to check and balance them, and they would just be shareholders waiting for dividends."