Chapter 885: The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
In the town of Lake Dart, Murray District, Scotland, at the Bahrain Lake Castle, a series of rapid footsteps came from far and near, waking up the stunned Ballyt Balin.
Barther Ballin followed the sound and was surprised to find his son Bradley Ballin walking towards him with a solemn face.
Combined with the events of this time, he had a guess in his mind.
He stood up and took the initiative to ask with a complicated feeling: "Bradley, is there a result of the ownership of the bank?"
Bradley Bahrain happened to walk in front of him, nodded with a complicated expression, sighed and said, "Yes, father." ”
Barther Barin was shocked, and asked calmly, "Tell me, who took over? Is it Barclays?"
Although the Bank of Bahrain is controlled by the Bahrain family, it has been listed after all, and most of the bank's assets belong to the public, and the assets belonging to the Bahrain family are no longer enough to offset the losses.
Therefore, as a matter of course, the Bank of Bahrain was forcibly taken over by the Bank of England, and Ballyt Bahrain had long been aware and mentally prepared to be taken over.
It's just that it was taken over by someone else, he didn't want to see the Bank of Bahrain taken over by the Rothschild family!
Thinking of what Carter Howard had told him, Barther Balin felt another wave of anger in his heart, and a flush flushed his wrinkled face.
Bradley Baring didn't see his father's strange appearance, he shook his head, and said with some puzzlement: "It's not Barclays, the Bank of England has held a press conference, and after voting, it was agreed that the Bank of Baring would be taken over by a consortium composed of Locke Fund, Jiuding Bank, Bright Fund and Black Rose Capital Company for one pound, and assume all the debts of the bank. ”
Ballyt Barin stood up abruptly and asked again with a look of disbelief, "Not Barclays?"
Bradley Barlin shook his head decisively and said: "No, Barclays' plan only received four votes and was not passed, and the only plan that passed was the plan of the consortium headed by the Locke Fund." ”
After speaking, he said angrily: "Father, I think all this is a conspiracy of the Howard family and the Bright Fund, against us in the futures market, short the shares of our bank in the stock market, and now they have defeated Barclays Bank and taken over our Bank of Bahrain, they are the ultimate beneficiaries, they must have done it!"
Ballyt Balin shook his head and sighed with a wry smile.
If Carter Howard hadn't visited him, he might have thought the same thing as his son.
But seeing the evidence presented by Carter Howard, he already knew the truth.
Although the Howard family and the Bright Fund are the beneficiaries of the benefits, it can only be said that the benefits were snatched from the Rothschild family, and if the Bank of Bahrain had not been cheated by the Rothesmine family, it would not have all this now.
Carter Howard visited him in person, and he had already made it clear that he wanted to hate it, but he couldn't hate it.
"Father, what's wrong? Aren't they the ones?"
Seeing that his father's expression was wrong, Bradley Barin frowned and asked.
Ballyt Barin sat down again, sighed and said, "It's not them, it's the conspiracy of the Rothel family. ”
Bradley Balin's eyes widened in disbelief: "How could it be the Rothschild family?"
"That's them!"
After saying that, Bartet Bahrain got up and went to a locked drawer, took out a brown paper document bag, and returned it to his son.
"There's strong evidence in this, Duke Carter Howard came here before you came back, and he brought it with you. ”
Bradley Barin hurriedly opened it and took out a thick stack of materials to browse.
As he browsed, his face kept changing.
After a long time, Bradley Barin finally looked at it, he raised his head suddenly, his eyes were bloodshot, and he said hatefully: "Father, Curtis Bard turned out to be a traitor, George Monroe is also an accomplice, and the Rothschild family, we must go to court to sue them!"
Barther Barin shook his head helplessly and sighed: "It's useless, this evidence is enough for us to know the truth, but not enough to be evidence for prosecution, there is no paper evidence of Curtis Bard and George Monroe and the Rothschild family." ”
Bradley Bahrain was stunned for a moment, his fists clenched, his teeth clenched, and his heart was full of resentment, carefully recalling the information he had just read, but he had to admit that what his father said was right.
The presumption of innocence and the absence of doubt were enough to defeat their case.
Although they now logically presume that it is the Rothess family who are playing the trick, the law is in favor of the defendant, and the defendant does not need to provide evidence to prove his innocence, and their subjective thoughts cannot be used as evidence to determine the facts.
In the event that the lawsuit cannot be won, the lawsuit will only outweigh the losses.
What's more, now the Bahrain family is doomed to lose the Bahrain Bank, and the Bahrain family without the Bahrain Bank is no longer qualified to provoke the Rothier family without official help.
"Father, is that all we have to do?"
Bradley Barin asked unwillingly, staring intently at his father.
Bartet Balin was silent for a long time, and nodded slowly: "Yes, we can't knock each other down at once, we can only bow our heads temporarily." ”
Speaking of this, Bartet Ballin paused, his gaze becoming cold. "But this doesn't mean forgetting the hatred, the top priority is to make the family strong again, the Rothschild family prays that there is no crisis, otherwise the time for us to take revenge is when they are unlucky!"
Bradley Barin nodded indignantly, "I see, father." ”
"What about the Howard family and the Bright Fund?"
Ballyt Barin thought for a moment and said: "They snatched the Bank of Bahrain from the Rothschild family, and the relationship between the two sides must be very bad, since we have decided to be hostile to the Rothschild family, then the Howard family and the Bright Fund can no longer be offended." ”
"I understand that I will assist them in taking over the Bank of Bahrain smoothly. Bradley Bahrain said with mixed feelings.
"Well, that's it......" Barrett Balin sighed.
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George Berkeley's cooperation came as a surprise to George Berkeley, but it was undoubtedly the best.
In just two days, the 218-year-old Bank of Bahrain was bought by a consortium led by the Locke Fund for a symbolic price of one pound.
The new Bahrain Bank is 35 percent owned by the Rock Fund, 25 percent by Jiuding Bank, 20 percent by the Bright Fund, and 20 percent by Black Rose Capital.
The day after the acquisition, the Bank of Bahrain faced a major change, in which Curtis Bard and George Monroe were directly dismissed, their henchmen were also fired, and the former president of the Bank of Bahrain, Peter Niels, voluntarily submitted his resignation and was approved by the board of directors.
The new president is Brian Pittman, a vice president poached from Lloyds Bank, who was handpicked by Xia Yu.
Although Duke Carter Howard didn't know why Xia Yu wanted to poach him, based on his trust in Xia Yu, Duke Carter Howard still used his face to pry people over.
Brian Pittman can be favored by Xia Yu, which naturally makes sense.
In its original trajectory, Lloyds Bank suffered heavy losses in the Latin American sovereign debt crisis, ranked the lowest in terms of assets among the four major UK commercial banks, and had a rather weak capital base.
However, in 1983, when Brian Pittman became president of Lloyds Bank, he quickly changed his strategy, using extremely clever management methods to integrate a series of banking businesses and develop new businesses, and in just 15 years, in 1998, Lloyds Bank became the world's largest bank by market capitalization, with a peak market value of 68.7 billion pounds!
For this reason, Brian Pittman has an extremely famous title - the most brilliant banking integration wizard!
Now that the Bank of Bahrain does need to be restructured and consolidated, Brian Pittman is in good shape to take over the reforms, and with the full support of the Board of Directors, the Bank of Bahrain will definitely be able to quickly re-emerge.
When Brian Pittman took office, the Bright Fund immediately moved to make the Bank of Bahrain take the burden of futures contracts through a series of transactions.
Duke Carter Howard then stood on the platform and assured the whole society that the Bank of Bahrain would resume normal operations and that all business cooperation would be carried out normally.
And there was also a small news secretly leaked that Black Rose Capital, one of the shareholders of the Bank of Bahrain, belonged to the royal family.
As a result, depositors' confidence has increased dramatically, and the long queues for withdrawals have quickly disappeared.
The famous Bright Fund in the capital market also announced that it will fully cooperate with the Bank of Bahrain to rebuild private and public funds, and the investors of the original Bank of Bahrain have the right of first refusal.
A series of measures have directly stabilized the market's confidence in the Bank of Bahrain, although the assets of the Bank of Bahrain are still losing, but the rate of loss has decreased significantly, and the trend is gradually decreasing.
Seeing this, Jacob Rothschild was furious, but he had to give up his plan to target the Bank of Bahrain.
No way, who let them find out the background of Black Rose Capital!
Although the capital strength of the Rothschild family is stronger than that of the royal family, Jacob Rothschild can only rest considering the influence of the royal family among the British people and the upper class.
What's more, the shareholders of the Bank of Bahrain also include Guangming Fund and Jiuding Bank, both of which are Xia Yu's enterprises, and now they plan to maintain a good relationship with Xia Yu, so naturally they can no longer move the Bank of Bahrain.
Jacob Rothschild had a thousand words in his heart, which could only turn into a helpless sigh.
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