"Without external help, it would be difficult for Hang Lung Bank to overcome this crisis. In just one morning, more than half of the cash reserves of Hang Lung branches have been taken away. This situation will definitely become more serious in the afternoon!
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Xu Yi was sitting opposite Chu Huan with a notebook in his hand, reporting the current situation to Chu Huan.
"In addition, the Financial Secretary has notified Roy Bentley of HSBC, Old Sanderson of Standard Chartered and Liu Zhiyuan of our Jiaku, hoping that our three banks can come out to endorse Hang Lung Bank. At the same time, Zhuang Rongkun of Hang Lung Bank has also informed Jiaku
The bank called and hoped to get support from Jiaku Bank!"
The settlement between Standard Chartered Bank and Alder Commercial Bank has not yet ended, or even officially started, and both parties have not announced the matter to the public. So until now, everyone in Hong Kong still thinks that Standard Chartered Bank is still the same Standard Chartered Bank.
Woolen cloth!
"Liu Zhiyuan hasn't returned from the Financial Secretary's Office yet, but I have already called Jiaku Bank and informed Liu Zhiyuan's secretary. Liu Zhiyuan will come up as soon as possible after returning to the bank!"
After hearing this, Chu Huan nodded and asked, "How is the situation over there in Jia Ning?"
Xu Yi opened the next page of the notebook in his hand and said: "After Jia Ning published the sales and leasing situation of the Hongmian Building two days ago, Jia Ning's stock price rose against the wind. At the same time, we noticed that,
There are people in the market who are discreetly selling some shares of Carin, but not many.
However, Chen Songqing has been calling the company these days, hoping to meet with you, the boss!
It seems that Chen Songqing is not as good as he seems on the surface!"
When talking about this, Xu Yi couldn't help but asked Chu Huan: "Boss, should we take action against Jia Ning now? If there is bad or good news about Jia Ning in the market at this time, then the entire stock market and real estate market in Xiangjiang will be affected."
And other industries will definitely be exploded in an instant!"
Chu Huan did not answer Xu Yi's question, but asked her: "Is there any movement over there in Malaysia?"
Xu Yi nodded and said: "According to the call from our people in Malaysia, Yumin Bank of Malaysia has sent a person named Ibarahi to Xiangjiang as the assistant general manager of Yumin Finance. He should be here to investigate Yumin
Finance is related to Chen Songqing!"
Chu Huan ordered: "Tell Wu Xiaohui to send a few people to secretly protect that Ibaraxi. If anyone wants to attack him, catch him!"
Xu Yi's expression suddenly changed, and he asked in disbelief: "Boss, do you mean that Chen Songqing is possible?"
Chu Huan nodded and said: "Jianing's current market value reaches tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars. Such a huge wealth is enough for Chen Songqing to do any crazy thing."
In fact, this is indeed the case. In another time and space, the Ibarahi who came to investigate the financial relationship between Yumin Finance and Jiali did die while investigating the financial relationship between Yumin Finance and Jiani.
Regent Hotel in Hong Kong and was smuggled into a banana forest in the New Territories.
It's just that the killer's business was obviously not very good. The body was soon discovered, and in the process, the killer left a lot of evidence, which eventually led to the police catching the murderer very quickly.
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Then, under the accusation of the murderer, he stated that he was instructed to do this by a person named Zhuang, and that behind this person named Zhuang was Chen Songqing.
Subsequently, the police began an investigation into Jianing and took Chen Songqing away from his home a month later. However, when the trial began, many key witnesses died suddenly.
Coupled with Chen Songqing's money-making ability, although the Jianning empire collapsed in the end, Chen Songqing was ruled by the then chief trial officer Bai Jiayi that there was insufficient evidence and the six defendants "do not need to plead", and guided the jury to decide
The defendant was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud and was released in court.
What is even more exaggerated is that it was also ruled that the 100 million Hong Kong dollars in litigation costs should be paid by the Hong Kong government!
Xu Yi nodded and said: "I understand, I will inform Mr. Wu about this matter."
Chu Huan said: "As for taking action against Jia Ning, don't worry about it now. When the wave of bank runs in Xiangjiang's banking industry completely blows up, then let the Jia Ning incident break out!"
Xu Yidao: "I understand!"
Then Xu Yi asked Chu Huan again: "What about Chen Songqing's phone call?"
Chu Huan waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about him, just say I don't have time!"
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Because the current HSBC Building is being rebuilt, HSBC temporarily moved its headquarters to a building belonging to the British Army in Hong Kong.
After Roy Bentley came back from the Financial Secretary's Office, he came to his office with a complicated expression. Shen Bi and Pu Weishi were already waiting here.
The two of them also saw at this time that the Hang Lung Bank incident was likely to trigger a new wave of runs in the banking industry in Hong Kong. As the leader of the banking industry in Hong Kong, HSBC certainly could not sit idly by and watch this matter.
If possible, they even want to learn from HSBC's acquisition of Hang Seng and acquire Hang Lung Bank.
"What did the Financial Secretary say?"
Seeing Roy Bentley return, Shen Bi asked immediately.
Roy Bentley shook his head and said with a complicated expression: "Alder Commercial Bank has completed its controlling stake in Standard Chartered Bank and has become the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank. And Sanderson has sold out all their family's shares in Standard Chartered Bank.
Alder Commercial Bank has decided to officially withdraw from Standard Chartered!”
"What?"
"What?"
Shen Bi and Pu Weishi stood up at the same time and looked at Roy Bentley in disbelief. They could not believe what Roy Bentley said.
Roy Bentley looked at the two people and smiled bitterly, because their expressions were the same as the expressions he and Financial Secretary Peng Lizhi had when they were at the Financial Secretary's Office.
It was like seeing a fantasy in the Arabian Nights.
"How is this possible? How come there was no news about it before?"
At this time, Shen Bi no longer cared about Hang Lung Bank's affairs, but asked Roy Bentley excitedly, possibly asking himself.
Roy Bentley continued to shake his head and said: "I don't know, but Chu Huan was able to hide this matter so well, and even took over old Sanderson's shares in Standard Chartered Bank, which illustrates one thing. , in the process of this acquisition, Alder Commercial Bank must have given Standard Chartered Bank shareholders a price that they cannot refuse!"
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Pu Wei Shi was also shocked at this time and asked: "Didn't it say that Jiaku is experiencing cash flow problems now? How could they have enough funds to acquire Standard Chartered Bank?"
Roy Bentley said angrily: "Don't think about cash flow issues anymore. The greater possibility is that Jiaku wants to use this matter to create a fascination circle, so that no one will guess them. It’s about acquiring Standard Chartered Bank.”
After hearing what Roy Bentley said, Shen Bi and Pu Weishi also showed helpless expressions. It really didn't matter anymore to speculate about this matter now.
Now there is a bigger problem before them. Although Jiaku was strong in the past, at least in the banking industry, there was no way to compete with them, especially now that the market in Xiangjiang is not very good and there are more depositors and customers. Still more willing to trust HSBC.
But now that Alder Commercial Bank has acquired Standard Chartered Bank, they have reached a point where they can be on par with HSBC in terms of scale.
In other words, from now on, HSBC may no longer be the dominant player in Hong Kong’s banking industry!
"Now there are only two roads left before us!" Shen Bi said somewhat decadently.
Although he has experienced the helplessness of being surpassed by Jiaku, Shen Bi still feels helpless about this matter, that is, Jiaku has now surpassed HSBC in an all-round way.
"What way?" Pu Weishi asked.
Shen Bidao: "Either we fully invest to complete the support for Hang Lung and then integrate Hang Lung Bank into our HSBC system. But if this is the case, if the future of Xiangjiang is really taken back by China in the future, we will The current investment is actually in vain.
The second way is to complete the acquisition of Midland Bank as soon as possible. Only in this way will we have more ways out!"
In fact, what Shen Bi is talking about is the two directions for HSBC's future development, either to continue to develop Xiangjiang's business and complete the overtaking of Jiaku Bank Group again.
Either they speed up the acquisition of Midland Bank, so that they complete their triangle stool strategy and tactics. In this case, even if the future of Xiangjiang really lies in returning to the embrace of China in the future, HSBC only needs to protect itself in Xiangjiang. After that, you can develop your business overseas with confidence.
"I have declined Peng Lizhi's invitation!"
Roy Bentley smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Obviously, when he was in the Financial Secretary's Office, Roy Bentley had already thought about the main development direction of HSBC in the future, which was to complete the merger with Bank of Midland as soon as possible and make every effort to develop HSBC's overseas business.
"If this is the case, we may have to put the relocation on the agenda!" Shen Bi's heart is actually more inclined towards the second option.
Let’s not talk about the future situation of Xiangjiang. Let’s just talk about the present. With the completion of the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank by Alder Commercial Bank and the support of Jiaku, the rise of Jiaku Bank Group in Xiangjiang is already an irreversible thing.
Moreover, Huayin's banking industry in Xiangjiang is becoming more and more active. Although China is not yet wealthy, looking at China's domestic development, from Shen Bi's point of view, China's domestic economic environment is definitely unmatched. However, with the domestic development of China, no one knows how far Xiangjiang Huayin, which will use the strength of the whole country, can develop in Xiangjiang.
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Looking at the cooperation between Chu Huan and Huayin, HSBC is likely to face the siege of these two banking groups in Hong Kong. If HSBC does not have a better escape route, it will be really dangerous.
This is based on the analysis of the final solution to the Xiangjiang issue after the British side got the results they wanted.
If the final result in Xiangjiang is a victory for China, then Shen Bi can be sure that Huayin's responsibilities in Xiangjiang will be heavier, and the pressure on HSBC will be even greater.
The problem now is that if we really choose the second option, and if we want HSBC to merge with Midland Bank as we wish, then HSBC will have to complete the redomiciliation.
Roy Bentley said: "After the Financial Secretary came out, I went to the Hong Kong Governor's office. Youde discussed the recent situation in Hong Kong with me. What he meant was that if on the 22nd of this month, we If the negotiation with China does not go well, he can make a decision to relocate in disguise, but at the same time, if the negotiation with China goes well, he still hopes that HSBC can stay in Hong Kong!"
Pu Weishi said: "He did this entirely out of political considerations!"
Roy Bentley nodded and said: "Of course I know this, but this is actually something we need to pay attention to."
Again, if the negotiations do not go smoothly, it actually means that if HSBC still wants to maintain its position in Hong Kong in the future, it must cooperate with Huayin's development.
One is his biological child and the other is his stepmother. Roy Bentley naturally knows how to choose.
Pu Weishi said: "We can use overseas business to negotiate with China. Although Huayin can replace us for the local business in Xiangjiang, but the overseas business of these businessmen in Xiangjiang must rely on our HSBC. HSBC is here Overseas business is simply not comparable to Huayin!"
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The main business of Alder Commercial Bank is in North America. At the same time, the Japanese branch of Alder Commercial Bank is developing very rapidly. According to the news from my friends in the Japanese banking industry, the Japanese branch of Alder Commercial Bank is in The companies supported by Japan have developed very rapidly in recent years. Now those companies have begun to support the Japanese branch. Even in the comprehensive ranking of the Japanese banking industry last year, the Japanese branch of Alder Commercial Bank won the first place. The title of the bank with the most development potential in the country.
In addition, Alder Mercantile Bank has now completed the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank and has expanded their business in Europe.
At the beginning of this year, Alder Commercial Bank also signed a strategic partnership with Busan Bank in South Korea.
Based on Chu Huan’s relationship with China, do you think they would be willing to hand over their overseas business to us or to Chu Huan’s Alder Commercial Bank?”
After hearing Shen Bi's answer, Pu Weishi stopped talking.
"Since everyone has no opinion on the future development direction of the group, let's do what we said now and let them fend for themselves regarding Hang Lung Bank!"
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After Roy Bentley exhaled a breath of filthy breath, he spoke helplessly.
Shen Bi asked: "By the way, you haven't said what Standard Chartered Bank and Jiaku Bank think about this matter?"
Roy Bentley shook his head and said: "These two banks also rejected the Financial Secretary's request for them to contribute funds to help Hang Lung Bank. The reason for Standard Chartered Bank is that it is currently working hard to complete the business delivery with Alder Commercial Bank, and Jiaku The reason for the bank's refusal is that they now want to ensure their own financial health and not allow this run on Bank of Japan to spread to Koko Bank."
Pu Weishi chuckled and said: "Although Alder Commercial Bank has completed the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank, we are the only ones in Hong Kong who are not afraid of the squeeze wave! HSBC!"
HSBC has been the leader in Hong Kong's banking industry for many years. What Pu Weishi said at this time is not an exaggeration at all.
After hearing this, Roy Bentley and Shen Bi also smiled, but after smiling, Shen Bi suddenly said: "That's not right!"
Roy Bentley and Pu Weishi looked at Shen Bi at the same time, Pu Weishi asked: "What's wrong?"
Shen Bi said with a serious expression: "Liu Zhiyuan's answer is wrong. Jiaku Bank cannot be afraid of a run. Since the merger of Jiaku Bank was successful, I have been paying attention to the situation of Jiaku Bank. Over the years, Jiaku Bank has been What we are doing is actually cleaning up the bad debts of several banks such as Far East Bank. In addition, Bank of East Asia was already known for its stability back then.
Coupled with Jiaku's support for Jiaku Bank, Jiaku Bank's loan-to-deposit ratio has been in a very healthy state in recent years.
Finally, let's not forget Jiaku's influence in Xiangjiang. Now Chu Huan has actually completed the project of transferring his influence to Jiaku.
Jiaku's reputation in Xiangjiang is greater than that of HSBC, and the citizens of Xiangjiang will definitely trust the newcomer Jiaku Bank as much as we do, so the so-called run wave is simply impossible to happen."
After listening to Shen Bi's words, Roy Bentley and Pu Weishi also understood the meaning. In fact, it is precisely because of the influence of Jia Ku Bank in Hong Kong that today the Financial Secretary Peng Lizhi is here. Liu Zhiyuan from Jiaku Bank was invited to work.
"That means Jiaku doesn't want to help Hang Lung Bank at this time?" Pu Weishi said subconsciously.
Shen Bi shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be like this!"
After finishing speaking, Shen Bi walked back and forth in Roy Bentley's office. After a few back and forth, he asked Roy Bentley and Pu Weishi.
"If you were Chu Huan, what would you most like to do after completing the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank?"
Pu Weishi was the first to say: "If it were me, I would let Alder Commercial Bank complete the digestion of Standard Chartered Bank. After all, Standard Chartered Bank's business is all over the world. It will take more than a year and a half to complete this matter. It’s impossible.”
After hearing this, Roy Bentley shook his head and said: "No, what you saw was just the single incident of Alde Commercial Bank's acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank. If you look at this matter from a higher level. .....
Alder Commercial Bank's acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank is actually completing their position in Hong Kong to catch up with HSBC. However, even if they complete the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank, they can only catch up with the scale of HSBC.
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But who is Chu Huan?
This person has great ambitions. If it were not for the current incident of Hang Lung Bank, catching up with our HSBC would indeed allow him to safely digest Standard Chartered Bank. But now with this incident of Hang Lung Bank, if at this time, Jiaku Bank will Attack and complete the acquisition of Hang Lung, and then they may surpass HSBC.
If I were Chu Huan, I would definitely not give up this opportunity!"
Shen Bi nodded and said: "I think so too, so in my opinion, Liu Zhiyuan's answer is just a delaying strategy. Chu Huan's purpose is just not to let Jiaku Bank have any complications in the acquisition of Hang Lung Bank! "
Now there is a new problem before the three of them.
They had decided not to take care of Hang Lung Bank's affairs before because they were sure that Hang Lung Bank would be doomed this time. However, after their analysis, it was found that Jiaku Bank was actually waiting for Hang Lung Bank to be unable to hold on and take action. Completed the acquisition of Hang Lung Bank.
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Knowing that at a certain point in the future, the size of the Bank in Hong Kong may exceed that of HSBC, and knowing that the size of the Bank is about to exceed that of HSBC are two different emotions.
The atmosphere in Roy Bentley's office became depressing.
Because they don’t know what they should do?
From a business point of view, it does not make much sense to prevent Jiaku Bank from acquiring Hang Lung Bank, because after this run, Hang Lung Bank will definitely be in very bad shape. If you want Hang Lung Bank to develop again,
Get up, this takes time.
But no matter what, where is the scale of Hang Lung Bank? Coupled with the strength of Jiaku Bank, in nominal terms, the scale of Jiaku Bank Group does exceed that of HSBC.
From a personal point of view, the three of them really, really, really don't want Koku Bank to complete this acquisition. There is no other reason than that they cannot accept it psychologically.
Roy Bentley smiled bitterly and said: "I have told Peng Lizhi our attitude at HSBC!"
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Outside the headquarters of Hang Lung Bank in Central, Hong Kong.
The crowd in Wuyang Wuyang has blocked the door of Hang Lung Bank. There are green police officers at the scene to maintain order. The happy expressions on the faces of the people who walked out from inside and the responses to the people outside the door indicate that they can get the money.
situation, so that the order at the scene was not disrupted.
But those who withdraw money will never leave.
In just one morning, all kinds of gossip about Hang Lung Bank are already flying all over the sky.
What, Zhuang Rongkun, Zhuang Qingquan and others have already absconded back to the Philippines with their funds!
Diners Finance will be liquidated soon.
No bank in Hong Kong is willing to help Hang Lung Bank.
All kinds of gossip have severely impacted the sensitive nerves of Xiangjiang citizens. At this time, no one is willing or has the courage to gamble their life savings on Hang Lung Bank's deposits.
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There were several cars parked outside the crowd. Among them was a silver-gray Rolls-Royce. Sitting in the car were Chu Huan, Xu Yi, and Liu Zhiyuan.
"Chairman, it seems that Hang Lung Bank is really coming to an end this time!"
There was no sympathy in Liu Zhiyuan's eyes, but excitement.
He already knew from Chu Huan that Jiaku Bank was going to acquire Hang Lung Bank. Let alone Jiaku Bank Group, just Jiaku Bank itself. If the acquisition of Hang Lung Bank could be completed, then Jiaku Bank would be able to expand its scale.
It completely threw away Hang Seng Bank.
Of course, in terms of deposits, Jiaku Bank still cannot compare with Hang Seng Bank. After all, according to the current situation, Hang Lung Bank will definitely have a lot of deposits taken away!
But at least they already have the foundation.
At this time, Chu Huan had also learned from Liu Zhiyuan about the conversation between Liu Zhiyuan and the others at the Financial Department.
"Don't think it's so simple. The acquisition of Hang Lung Bank is not going to be smooth sailing!"
Liu Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "We, Jiaku, HSBC, and Standard Chartered have all made it clear that they will not lend a helping hand to this Hang Lung incident. Who else in Xiangjiang has this ability except us?" ah?"
Xu Yi understood Chu Huan's meaning better and explained to Liu Zhiyuan.
"What the chairman means is, don't underestimate the three people at HSBC. Roy Bentley's growth has become more and more obvious in the past two years, and he rarely makes arbitrary decisions on major events. Shen Bi and Pu Weishi Since they are all top-notch talents, it is very likely that they will see our ideas and cause trouble.
In addition, in the current environment, the Hong Kong government does not want anything beyond its control to happen in Hong Kong. Therefore, even without the help of the three of us, the Financial Secretary will very likely take over Hang Lung Bank. If we do It will be much more difficult to get Hang Lung Bank in the hands of the Hong Kong government than it is to get Hang Lung Bank now.
But we cannot act too early. If we act too early, we will not be able to achieve the sensational effect the boss wants."
Liu Zhiyuan didn't know how to answer for a moment. After all, he didn't know Chu Huan's complete plan.
Xu Yi looked at Chu Huan at this time and asked: "Boss, do you think HSBC will take action?"
Regarding this question, Chu Huan could only shake his head, and then said with a bitter smile: "I am not an old god, I can know everything clearly."
Speaking of this, Chu Huan smiled lightly and said: "However, whether it is HSBC or the Hong Kong government, if they really want to take action, it will only cause them greater economic losses, but they have no idea what will happen next. There is no way!”
Liu Zhiyuan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was horrified. The wave of bank squeezes on Hang Lung Bank had already formed. This was already a major event in the Hong Kong business community. But now that his boss was telling him, it seemed that there was a bigger plan ahead?
Xu Yi's next question confirmed Liu Zhiyuan's thoughts.
"Boss, do you mean that we can start the next phase of the plan?"
Chu Huan nodded slightly and said, "Okay, let them send out the report in two days."
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Xu Yi started to get a little excited and said: "I understand, I will give the order when I get back later!"
Chu Huan took one last look at the situation outside Hang Lung Bank and said, "Let's go, there will be plenty of time to see it later!"