NatWestster Group is one of the world's largest and best capital quality banking groups, one of the four largest commercial banks in the United Kingdom, and the seventh largest bank in the world.

It dates back to the 17th century, and the current NatWestminster Banking Group was formed on 18 March 1968 by the merger of three prominent English banks and opened for business on 1 January 1970. With total assets of £200 billion, a total capital of £12 billion, and a pre-tax profit of £700 million, it is three times larger than the Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

As one of the largest private banks in the UK, NatWestminster has a wide range of businesses.

NatWest UK is one of the four largest clearing banks in the United Kingdom, with a focus on retail and commercial banking, credit card services, mortgage services and insurance services.

Among them, NatWest UK's International Trade and ITBS provides trade finance and settlement services to support UK clients in their international business and operations, as well as international settlement services and maintains correspondent international business relationships with more than 3,000 banks. Ranked No. 1 in the UK International Trade Bank, it is the best bank in terms of short-term and medium-term borrowing, money management, leasing and foreign exchange trading.

Lombard is the UK's largest commercial finance institution and provides a range of financial products including business asset finance, car loans, sales credit and personal credit services to individual and business customers.

At the same time, NatWestminster Bank is also a registered member of the London IFC and major foreign exchange exchanges.

But even so, ITBS head Stephen Hirst was stunned when he heard Robert John's request. Because, Robert John took out $1.8 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds and was going to borrow money from NatWestminster.

It's nothing.

Banks borrow money to earn interest, which is one of the most basic ways to do business.

Robert John's request, however, was to borrow 4.5 billion pounds with the $1.8 billion worth of US Treasury bonds.

What is the concept?

$1.8 billion, not even less than £900 million, and even according to the fixed income of US Treasury bonds, £4.5 billion is almost five times as much as $1.8 billion.

If that were the case, Stephen Hess wouldn't be shocked as a well-informed head of financial services.

Lending in the form of marginal loans, which has been launched by NatWest Bank for many years, is one of the reasons why NatWestminster Bank's assets continue to expand by using its own savings and lending funds and cash assets to invest in lending.

Banks love this kind of business, and so do customers. Because more investment is allowed, there will be more returns and banks can earn more interest than if they only invested with savings.

Under the supervision of bank risk control, customers can be allowed to buy a stock or manage the portfolio of funds and invest in currencies, with strict risk control measures, and the risk is controlled in the hands of the bank.

You can also earn five times as much interest, so why not.

So, although he was surprised by Robert John's one-time request, this was not the main reason why Stephen Hess couldn't believe it.

What really breached him was what Robert John had borrowed for such a large sum of money.

Short the pound!

Robert John asked NatWest to lend him £4.5 billion and sell it at Westminster's foreign exchange department when he needed it.

Shocked, stunned, and looking at Robert John with idiotic eyes, Stephen Hess remembered what a financial services director should do at this time.

"Dear Mr. John, with all due respect. It's a stupid investment. If Germany lowers interest rates, there is no chance of success in shorting the pound, and even if Germany does not lower interest rates, the Bank of England will have enough foreign exchange reserves to maintain the pound against the value of the pound, God, that is 22 billion pounds worth of reserves. ”

Is it stupid?

Robert John's figure couldn't help but straighten, his eyes showed a fanatical color, indeed, any normal person will now think that shorting the pound is a very stupid investment, now Germany is facing huge pressure to choose to back down, if Germany cuts interest rates, then at this time to short the pound, undoubtedly to bear a huge risk.

Britain has another $40 billion worth of foreign exchange reserves.

But so what.

Can your own boss be wrong?

Absolutely not.

Victory after victory, in Robert John's heart, Shen Jiannan has long been a god-like existence.

If he wants to short the pound, then the victory must belong to the Air Force.

Robert John was pleased with Stephen Hess's sincere service, which was much cuter than the bankers who were desperate to get out of his pockets, wasn't he?

Robert John hated bankers, even though he used to be a banker.

However, he admired Stephen Hess's precious qualities, which he had enough honesty before God.

This, very much like him.

So, like a messenger of God walking on earth, with kindness and comfort in his eyes, he looked at Stephen Hess as if he were a humble and pious servant.

"Hess, do you believe in God?"

Belch......

Stephen Hess was so confused by Robert John's question that he didn't understand what it had to do with investing.

But out of politeness, he chose to answer the question anyway.

"Of course. I believe. I am a devout Catholic. ”

"Good. Then I tell you, this is the gospel of God. What made me short the pound was God. Now there is an opportunity in front of you, and it depends on how you choose. ”

“......”

There's nothing wrong with this thing, right?

Stephen Hess's eyes became very strange, and if it weren't for the $1.8 billion US Treasury in front of him, he just wanted to stay away from this idiot.

If believing in God makes money, why should he be a supervisor here, and if the gospel of God can lift people out of poverty, then how can so many people be unemployed on the streets?

Why, God asked you to short the pound, is your brain in the water?

Or is this guy a devil?

Robert John is an old man who can't tell what Stephen Hess is thinking, but he doesn't plan to say anything more.

He gave the opportunity, whether he could seize it or not, that was someone else's business.

"I know you may not believe it, but I think you'll soon learn that what I'm saying is true. But before that, let's talk about loans. ”

"As you wish. ”

Meanwhile.

A middle-aged woman from Russia walked into the Royal Bank of Scotland with two helpers.

When the manager of the bank hall heard that they were going to borrow 1.5 billion pounds, he immediately bent down like a servant.

"Honorable Madam. Please follow me to the VIP lounge upstairs, where there are professional staff with full authority to provide you with efficient and high-quality service. ”

Lloyd's Bank, Barlake Bank, Midland Bank, and almost at the same time, Geman, Carmandi, as well as the teams of Nanbo Bank and Capital One, entered the four major British commercial banks.

Borrow money.

Borrow money.

Borrow more and more money.

Like a snowball rolling on a snowfield, KONE Group's shares borrowed £200 million, and £200 million turned into a billion pounds with marginal loans.

The 1.8 billion dollar national debt, one rollover, turned into forty-five billion pounds under leverage.

Nokia Group's shares were borrowed for 50 million pounds, and 50 million pounds became 250 million pounds with leverage.

Add to this the billion pounds that had been borrowed a long time ago, and the billion pounds of cash, leveraged by marginal loans, became another five billion pounds.

A full 102.5 billion pounds.

That's more than $20 billion.

No one could have imagined that the crazy thing of leverage could turn just $4 billion into more than $20 billion.

Rome, Fiumicino Airport,

A large special plane of more than 100 people landed in the T5 terminal, which is the location of the Fiumicino Airport in Italy for planes to and from the United States and Israel, as well as special planes.

Soon, Shen Jiannan stopped Qi Na and Yulia Yingying's waist and walked off the plane. Sean Kowski, who had been waiting for a long time, let go of the flask next to his mouth and hurriedly waved his hand.

"Boss. ”