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Volume 1 Chapter 625 Sensation in Hong Kong

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    "Not long ago, the media exposed the news that Kowloon Bank holds a large amount of foreign exchange and may make an investment in the near future. Reporters from this newspaper also followed up on this. Recently, someone accidentally bumped into Song Nianhui, the president of Kowloon Bank, and the chairman of Global Shipping.  The scene of the meeting between Su Haiwen and Wheelock Chairman Wu Guangzheng. "It is well known in Hong Kong that Su and Wu were at odds with each other due to the separation of the shipping kings. It was inevitable that Song Nianhui would invite these two people to meet."  Normally. Therefore, our reporter investigated further out of curiosity and accidentally discovered that the Kowloon Bank, or the wealthy Lin family behind it, seemed to be secretly discussing a deal with two members of the Shipping King family. " "When it comes to the Shipping King family, anyone can think of it!  The two pillar industries are shipping and real estate. However, shipping is complicated and subject to economic constraints. Lin Xiaozhi's family, which has never been involved in this business, will not easily get involved. It is well known that Lin Xiaozhi does not like real estate, and his name has already been removed.  ATV is not expected to be interested in Wharf TV, so the only thing that can interest Lin Xiaozhi is the shares of Standard Chartered Bank. "" A few years ago, Standard Chartered suffered a hostile takeover by Lloyds Bank, and Standard Chartered's senior management  Inviting Bao Yugang, Qiu Deba, and Robert Home to raise funds of more than one billion pounds to defeat Lloyds, the shipping family was once the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank. Although it has reduced its holdings in recent years, it has.  But the shipping king family still holds more than 100 million Standard Chartered shares! ""According to this newspaper's investigation, in the past few months, the stock price of Standard Chartered Bank, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, has steadily increased by 31.7%, which is a reflection of last year's performance.  It does not satisfy its investors, and it is not normal for Standard Chartered Bank, which had a sharp fall in its stock price after announcing its annual report at the beginning of the year. Apparently, funds are slowly and massively acquiring Standard Chartered shares! " "In mid-May, Australian hotel giant Robert!  ¡¤Houm admitted that he had recently sold all 41 million Standard Chartered shares he held to a Hong Kong bank. Just a week before he exposed the selling incident, Kowloon Bank President Song Nianhui'.  He happened to be on a 'vacation' in Australia, during which he also briefly stayed in Singapore, and was revealed by the media to have visited Qiu Teck Puat, Standard Chartered's current largest private shareholder. The results are self-evident, and all doubts point to the fact that the Lin Xiaozhi family is waiting for an opportunity!  Initiate the acquisition of Standard Chartered, a long-established British bank!¡± After the "Hong Kong Economic Daily" exposed this new news on the front page of its new issue, it quickly caused a tsunami in Hong Kong.  Although Standard Chartered Bank is far inferior to its old rival HSBC, it is one of the only two banks issuing Hong Kong dollars. Standard Chartered has superhuman status and popularity in Hong Kong, even if Citigroup, Morgan, Mitsubishi, UBS, Deutsche Bank, etc. are among the top 500 companies in the world.  Even the major international banks in Hong Kong cannot challenge Standard Chartered's status and popularity.  Therefore, once it was revealed that the Lin Xiaozhi family, a super wealthy family that has risen rapidly in Hong Kong in recent years, is looking for an opportunity to acquire Standard Chartered, and its Chinese identity is destined, this news immediately attracted the attention of all walks of life in Hong Kong. Not only did many media rush to get involved,  , chasing first-hand transaction information.  As the victim, Lin Xiaozhi is in Egypt for the final filming of the movie, so the media cannot harass him.  But another Kowloon Bank president who had appeared in the "Hong Kong Economic Daily" report, Song Nianhui, was not so lucky. For a while, the outside of the Kowloon Bank building was crowded with media reporters trying to get inside information.  "Mr. Song, the Hong Kong Economic Daily reported not long ago that you went to Australia in the name of 'vacation' and acquired the Standard Chartered shares held by Robert Home. Do you have any information about the Hong Kong Economic Daily's revelations?  "What's the explanation?" "It's not convenient for me to express any opinion on this!" "Mr. Song, regarding the recent media exposure that your Kowloon Bank is seeking to acquire Standard Chartered Bank, is this true?" "I'm sorry, no comment!"  Although Song Nianhui was tight-lipped and did not cooperate with media interviews.  But from beginning to end, no matter what the media asked, although he never expressed his position, he never denied it once.  So some smart people quickly determined that the Lin family's acquisition of Standard Chartered may indeed be true. On the one hand, they continued to harass Lin Xiaoyi, the highly exposed eldest brother of Lin Xiaozhi who has now turned to politics. At the same time, Hong Kong's major media and newspapers also  Get lively.  "Faced with media inquiries, Song Nianhui acquiesced that Kowloon Bank was taking action and may have acquired a sufficient number of Standard Chartered shares!" "The whereabouts of billions of lost foreign exchange have become clear. Kowloon Bank conspired to acquire Standard Chartered, and Lin Xiaozhi wanted to achieve the glory of the first Chinese banking family.  " "Lin Xiaoyi has not denied that his younger brother is trying to acquire Standard Chartered. The acquisition battle of Standard Chartered has begun! " For a while, even many wealthy and powerful people in Hong Kong who have good relations with the Lin family are curious about it, and each one is vague or vague.  After the affirmative or tacit answers leaked out, more and more people in Hong Kong began to believe that strengthThe wealthy Lin family seems to have really taken action against Standard Chartered, a long-established British consortium.  With things going on like this, how can the senior management of Standard Chartered Bank sit still?  Zhuang Beisi, who had just taken over as the president of Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong, immediately held a press conference and said at the meeting: "We have not received any news about Standard Chartered being acquiredYes, Standard Chartered's stock price has increased in the past six months.  It has been rising, but this doesn't mean anything. Maybe some investors are optimistic about the prospects of Standard Chartered No, we have not had contact with Kowloon Bank before, because everyone knows that with the strength of Kowloon Bank, it is impossible  Complete the acquisition of our Standard Chartered. However, we will consider asking Kowloon Bank for power generation" Although he wanted to appear calm at the press conference, the media still saw Zhuang Beisi's expression.  Confused.  In fact, as early as two or three months ago, when Standard Chartered¡¯s share price increased by more than 15 percentage points from the end of last year, bank executives noticed something strange and suspected that there might be forces absorbing Standard Chartered shares from the London Stock Exchange.  They thought they were coveted by a certain British banking giant, so they started to inquire around. The main suspect was "Labour," known as the British capital gangster who had launched a hostile takeover of Standard Chartered just a few years ago.  Ed Bank¡±.  It¡¯s no wonder that Standard Chartered is suspicious of Lloyds. At first, Lloyds took a fancy to Standard Chartered¡¯s Hong Kong dollar issuance qualification. When the senior management calculated that Hong Kong¡¯s return to Hong Kong was irreversible, some people expected that if Standard Chartered retained the Hong Kong dollar issuance rights in the future, it would probably  Therefore, it is extremely valuable (in fact, in the 1990s, out of fear and ignorance of Red China, many European and American people either had a far-sighted vision or just maliciously promoted the idea that "the 21st century belongs to China".  There was once a prophecy in Europe and the United States that if China maintained its current development rate, its strength would surpass that of the United States by 2010).  Based on this judgment, it only took them a few days to absorb more than 12% of Standard Chartered shares from the stock market and some of Standard Chartered's small shareholders. They proudly held a shareholders' meeting and announced to the outside world that they would  'Initiate a full acquisition.  As a result, Lloyd was too proud. Although Standard Chartered was far inferior to the capital gangsters, it invited three white knights. Relying on the strong financial resources of these three white knights, they jointly defeated Lloyd and forced its senior management to at least  In the end, we chose the second choice between spending an extra billion pounds just to bet on an uncertain future, or making a small profit to escape.  But no one at Standard Chartered would believe that Lloyds Bank, the ¡®capital gangster¡¯ they had always bullied, was willing to withdraw from the acquisition.  Afterwards, although Lloyds sold most of its Standard Chartered shares to Aberdeen Asset Management, Schroders Group and some small institutions close to itself, it still holds close to 6% of Standard Chartered shares. It can be seen that  Lloyd still has thoughts about Standard Chartered.  But after Standard Chartered inquired about the relationship, they discovered that Lloyd had not made any move.  In fact, when the international fast money attacked the British pound last year, they held a lot of bullish orders on the pound and did not have time to clear them. As a result, they were caught off guard by the more vicious international fast money. Although it could not be said that their vitality was hurt, it was still.  The losses were so heavy that they didn't even bother to attack them.  At that time, Standard Chartered was not yet at ease. It also inquired about other British-funded banking institutions in the country, but found that no one was coveting it. In addition, Kowloon Bank used a large number of retail investors to diversify and absorb Standard Chartered shares, because each account had  A general meeting of shareholders can be held as a shareholder if the amount does not reach a certain amount.  So after some panic, the senior management of Standard Chartered were relieved. As Hong Kong's return to the motherland was approaching, some small and medium-sized institutions were optimistic about the future prospects of the bank and increased their investment in Standard Chartered.  But they didn't expect that just a few months later, it was exposed by the Hong Kong media that Kowloon Bank was plotting against them.  Zhuang Beisi said for sure that the strength of Kowloon Bank is not enough to acquire Standard Chartered. This is true.  But the problem is that everyone knows that Kowloon Bank is nothing, but behind Kowloon Bank there is the Lin Xiaozhi family. As a super wealthy family in Hong Kong that has risen rapidly in recent years, even Beth Zhuang was just sold to the London headquarters of Standard Chartered in 1991.  Sent to Hong Kong as branch president, two years were enough for him to understand the family's legend and strong financial resources.  Lin Xiaozhi alone owns a listed group with a market value comparable to Standard Chartered. He also owns a TV station and multiple media. In the past, the industry has revealed several times that his talent in investment is unrivaled. For a time,  It is reported that he made billions by gambling on oil futures during the Gulf War, and this amount is getting more and more bizarre. In addition to the first time, it is said that the Lin family also has a lot of investments in mainland China.  And just last month, Lin Xiaozhi's Media Asia Pictures Group just spent nearly 4 billion Hong Kong dollars to acquire a British theater chain from the international record giant PolyGram.  All kinds of things made Zhuang Beisi and the senior management of Standard Chartered uneasy. Although a press conference was held to temporarily calm downBut as soon as the press conference was over, Beth Zhuang invited Song Nianhui, the president of Kowloon Bank, to attend a private cocktail party through his connections. After being declined, Sir Dalia, who had just been promoted to chairman of the board of directors of Standard Chartered Bank two years ago, hurriedly flew from London.  Going to Hong Kong, as soon as he got off the plane, he didn't even go to Standard Chartered Bank. He immediately called Su Haiwen, chairman of Global Shipping Lines, who had some personal relationship with him, and prepared to visit him.
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