Paris is the capital of France, and it is also the political, economic, cultural and commercial center of France, and Paris is divided into a total of 20 arrondissements, and there is no doubt that the most prosperous is the old central city in the northwest of Paris - the 8th arrondissement.

The Champs-Élysées boulevard stretches from the famous Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe is located here, as is the Palais d'Esélysée, the French presidential palace.

Xia Yu's destination and future destination is the center of France since ancient times.

Before he arrived, George Berkeley had ordered Xia Yu to buy a luxury villa with an area of 380 square meters and a height of four floors in the 8th arrondissement, for which he spent 6 million francs.

Not only that, Xia Yu also arranged for security personnel to be stationed in advance to investigate all possible risk factors to ensure his safety in France.

Accompanying Xia Yu to his residence was Leo Martin, the head of the French branch of the Bright Foundation, a 45-year-old Frenchman with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry, who was the person Xia Yu instructed George Berkeley to hunt for in France.

Luowang also conducted a comprehensive review of Leo Martin's upbringing and background, and found no problems.

Therefore, on the way here, Xia Yu revealed his identity to Leo Martin, and Leo Martin became more and more respectful to Xia Yu.

"Boss, this is the information you want!"

After taking a seat at Xia Yu's home, Leo Martin asked one of Xia Yu's bodyguards to help open the box, and he pointed to the materials piled up in the box in a brown paper bag, and said to Xia Yu.

In French, unlike English, there is a distinction between titles, in which "you" is vous and "you" is tu.

Leo Martin used the honorific title "you" to Xia Yu, of course.

Xia Yu glanced at the pile of materials in the box, and suddenly felt a little big.

However, he could also imagine that Leo Martin must have put a lot of effort into gathering this information, so he smiled and praised him for a good job.

"Leo, you've done a solid job. ”

"You give me the information about the financial industry and the banking industry first, and I'll look at the rest later. ”

After Xia Yu finished instructing, Leo Martin immediately took out a brown paper bag from the box, and then handed it to Xia Yu with both hands.

After Xia Yu took it, he opened it and quickly browsed it.

Although he had a lot of knowledge and memories of the times in France, except for the important events, the details were vague or even non-existent.

In order to better establish a foundation in France and achieve the set goals, he needs to have a comprehensive understanding of the current situation in France, so as to avoid mistakes in strategic decisions.

France's banking system is highly centralized and not as fragmented and diverse as it is next door.

Because of the high degree of centralization, the banks of France are obvious in the world, and the middle level is not as good as that of other countries.

For example, this year's "Banker" magazine ranked global banks, and France has four of the world's top 10 banks, namely the world's No. 1 Crédit Agricole, the world's No. 4 National Bank of Paris, the world's No. 6 Crédit Lyonnais, and the world's No. 7 Société Générale.

Of these four banks, the world's largest Agricultural Credit Bank is a semi-government bank, and the other three are state-owned banks with more than 90 percent government shares, none of which are private.

But what about the other six banks in the world's top 10?

Two are from the United States, two from West Germany, one each from the United Kingdom and the island nation, all six of which are owned by private consortiums.

The difference is clear!

Let's talk about the entire banking sector in France.

According to the current hierarchical registration information, there are a total of 377 banks in France, including 138 banks controlled by foreign countries, and 239 French domestic banks.

Among France's own banks, there are 39 state-owned banks, but if we include these banks and banks controlled by state-owned financial companies or enterprises with more than 50 percent of the capital, the number of banks directly or indirectly controlled by the state has reached 124, accounting for more than half of the total number of French banks!

This ratio is not terrifying!

Xia Yu is well aware that the François Mitterrand government is also preparing to further nationalize the banking sector and strengthen the national team's ability to intervene in the economy.

He remembered very well that after the nationalization and reform of the French banking industry in the previous life, the business windows of the state-owned banks would account for more than 90 percent of the country's total, and the share of deposits in the whole society under their control would also be about 90 percent, and the share of loans in the whole society would also reach about 80 percent.

There are also major national banks such as Crédit Agricole Suez, Crédit Crédit ICBC and Crédit Mercando that are jointly controlled by major consortia and families, which are definitely the targets of François Mitterrand.

In the information, Xia Yu also learned the reason why François Mitterrand's government intended to nationalize the banks, mainly for French state-owned enterprises.

Under the blow of the economic crisis, the self-owned funds of French enterprises have been declining continuously, from 66.7 percent in 1978 to 48 percent in 1982, and the self-owned funds of large state-owned enterprises have even become even more scarce, falling to 36.7 percent.

And in François Mitterrand's plan, he was to make the state enterprises play the role of "locomotives" in terms of investment in production. Therefore, a large amount of money is needed for the implementation of investment support policies.

In order to reduce costs and better promote reforms, it is of course necessary to let the government mobilize the funds of the whole society as much as possible.

The nationalization of the banking sector was a major trend led by François Mitterrand's government, and no one could stop it until substantial social harm was revealed.

However, the general trend cannot be changed, and the small trend can definitely be intervened by humans!

Xia Yu is ready to use these small potentials to achieve his own goals!

There are not only these materials in the banking industry, but also the equity information of many banks, and it will take a long time to read them.

Realizing that it might be too late today, Xia Yu encouraged Leo Martin a few words and sent him away.

In the next few days, Xia Yu didn't go anywhere, just nested at home and chewed on information.

After all the information was devoured, the current situation in France came to his mind clearly.

Xia Yu combined with the memories of later generations, and the inspirations in his mind emerged one after another.

He already knew where to start and put his roots in France.

But before that, he has to get busy with the most important things first!

Let's talk about the Rothier family first!

After deciding, Xia Yu called Leo Martin to his home, and then asked him to come forward and send an invitation to François Mitterrand.

Knowing that Xia Yu had come to Paris, François Mitterrand was surprised and readily agreed to meet Xia Yu secretly.

One night, Xia Yu came to François Mitterrand's home in a low-key manner......

PS: Don't dislike being short, today's main energy is still sorting out the materials and outlines of France, during which I encountered useful materials such as Germany, the United States, and island countries were also collected by the way, and I was still preparing for the future, and it was really difficult to write a book with a brain