"By the way, Mr. Su, you don't go to the Three Treasures Palace for anything. When you come here this time, you must have something important to tell me, right?" Shen Bi quickly entered the topic directly.
"Yes, Mr. Shen Bi, I did come here to tell you something. Do you know about Moli Fund Company?" Su Cheng said with a smile.
“I know, of course I know, Morley Fund Company is one of the ten largest shareholders of our Huifeng Bank and a non-executive director member of our Huifeng Bank. They own 3.58% of Huifeng Bank shares and hold He has been one of the important shareholders of Huifeng Bank for more than five years. What's wrong?" Shen Bi asked in surprise.
“They contacted me and said they wanted to sell me the Huifeng Bank stocks they held. I thought about it and felt that as a member of the board of directors of Huifeng Bank, since I have the ability to take over the stocks in his hands, I I’m more optimistic about Huifeng Bank, so take it over. In my opinion, Huifeng Bank is a company with a very good future, and you won’t lose money if you buy it. I’m here today just to inform you.” Su Cheng told this matter readily.
Anyway, Huifeng Bank will know about this matter soon. Telling it in advance will make Su City appear aboveboard.
This was also to better hide his secret acquisition of Huifeng Bank.
"If Mr. Su takes the shares of Morley Fund Company, the shares you control will reach 4.58%, and you will become one of the five largest shareholders of Huifeng Bank. Mr. Su attaches great importance to Huifeng Bank. For us, , which is also a good thing." Shen Bi seemed a little surprised after hearing Su Cheng's words.
Furthermore, it is obvious from his tone that Shen Bi strongly supports Su Cheng's increase in holdings of Huifeng Bank shares.
After all, this is equivalent to tying Su City and Huifeng Bank together.
Being tied to the world’s richest man is of course good news for Huifeng Bank.
And, the tighter the tie, the better.
Of course, this is because Shen Bi doesn't know Su Cheng's ambitions.
If he knew that Su Cheng planned to secretly control Huifeng Bank, then his thoughts would not be what they are now.
After all, in Shen Bi's mind, Huifeng Bank is a British-funded enterprise anyway. As a member of the British-funded consortium, he is definitely not willing to watch the British-funded enterprise he manages become a Chinese-funded enterprise. of.
Huifeng Bank is different from Hutchison Whampoa. Even though Hutchison Whampoa is one of the four major foreign banks, it is not a direct company of them.
In their view, their control of Huifeng Bank is equivalent to controlling Hong Kong's financial system, and the economic artery of Hong Kong is still in their hands.
Hutchison Whampoa was acquired by Chinese capital. In Shen Bi's view, it was nothing. Moreover, they specifically found a person with a Chinese capital background to take over Hutchison Whampoa. After all, the future of Xiangjiang is unclear. This It will be of great benefit to Huifeng Bank to cultivate a strong Chinese ally through Hutchison Whampoa.
It’s just that he never expected that after acquiring Hutchison Whampoa, Sioux City would become the richest man in the world. This was far beyond their control.
Both Shen Bi and the consortium behind Huifeng Bank felt that this was a very helpless thing. But they had no choice but to continue to show their goodwill to Su Cheng.
"I didn't expect that someone would contact me to sell Huifeng Bank's shares. I happen to have a lot of cash on hand. After the acquisition, the relationship between me and Huifeng Bank will become even closer. "Su Cheng also said to Shen Bi with a smile.
“I received news that Morley Fund Company was in trouble some time ago. Their investment failed, resulting in most of the funds being trapped in the stock market. Last week, they also applied to Huifeng Bank. Credit borrowing was needed to get through this crisis, but the amount of the loan they wanted was too large, and after a board meeting, our board members ultimately voted to reject their loan application
They thought later. We wanted to borrow money in the form of stock mortgages. After evaluation, we decided that we could lend them 150 million pounds, but they needed to mortgage all 3.58% of their stocks to the group. But this time they rejected us.
< br>According to their submitted wishes, the mortgage must exceed at least 200 million pounds, but naturally we will not agree, because we have found out the details of Morley Fund Company, and many of their funds are trapped in the Frankfurt stock market. The current situation makes it difficult for them to get out of the Frankfurt stock market without losing money for a long time.
The overall price of Frankfurt stocks they control is already 20 lower than when they bought it. %, this is still the market price. The amount of stocks they control is very huge. At this time, no one will take the order from them. Even if they are willing to take the order, they will take it at a lower price, so they will lose more. < br>
So if nothing else goes wrong, they will definitely not have enough funds to repay after maturity. In this way, the stocks mortgaged to us are equivalent to being sold to us, and our Huifeng Bank has not recovered the stocks in the name of the company. idea, so in the end we did not reach a loan contract.
I thought at that time that they would eventually have to find a buyer to acquire their Huifeng Bank shares. It was not easy to find a suitable buyer in a short time, after all, the funds involved in the transaction were It's too big, more than 200 million pounds of funds. No consortium is willing to come up with it at this time. I didn't expect that they would find you, Mr. Su. ”
Shen Bi is not surprised at all that Mori Fund Company sells stocks.
After all, Mori Fund Company has come to this point, and it can only first compare the performance of Huifeng Bank They had to sell some good stocks to get some funds to tide over the difficulties temporarily.
What Shen Bi didn't expect was that they would contact Su Cheng directly.
But think about it, Sioux City is one of the few consortiums that can come up with 200 million pounds at this time.
Being able to contact Sioux City is also a skill of Morley Fund Company.
“I didn’t expect it. When they contacted me, I was still a little surprised. I didn’t know the situation of Morley Fund Company because I didn’t know the company myself. I asked someone to investigate later. I didn’t learn about their situation until after they arrived,” Su Cheng said honestly.
He did not intend to have a strong desire to acquire the stock performance of Huifeng Bank, but showed them that all this was just a coincidence, lest these British consortiums accuse him of increasing their holdings of Huifeng Bank stocks. Worried about behavior.
"Mr. Su is willing to take over their stocks. As the chairman of the board of directors of Huifeng Bank, I wholeheartedly support it. The more Mr. Su holds our Huifeng Bank's stocks, I believe that other Huifeng Bank shareholders will also The happier you are." Shen Bi continued. (End of chapter)