Finally came to the United States, but Zhou Shi didn't expect it to be because of this reason: during the cooperation between Palantir, a big data company he invested in last year, and InformationarfareMonitor (IM information warfare surveillance), he discovered two transnational hacker networks: Ghostnet and theShadoNetork, these two transnational hacker agencies mainly target India, North China, The Lizard Convention and government agencies in the United States and other countries have stolen classified information, including hiding, so they are suspected of having a relationship with the Chinese government.

Zhou Shi had to come back to coordinate, blocking information couldn't be done, it was okay to get rid of the focus and divert attention, but these also had to communicate with Palantir, at least let them not say anything excessive, after all, sometimes rumors can cause a lot of damage.

While admiring Palantir, Zhou Shi also felt that he should increase investment in the research and development of big data, and perhaps the role of big data was hidden in many places that he had not discovered. Although he needed Palantir's cooperation, Zhou Shi did not come to the door directly, he was not very familiar with the founder team of this company, there were almost no sales staff in the whole company, and most of them were program apes, Zhou Shi just didn't understand this. He didn't look for Peter Thiel either, he always felt that this guy had a mysterious background, Tesla and Palantir had hooked up with the U.S. government and the military, and if he didn't have a role in it, he didn't believe it when he killed Zhou Shi. The first thing Zhou Shi found was the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The Bank is one of Europe's leading financial services groups and the largest bank in the UK, ranking first in the UK's corporate, personal and overseas banking sector, and second in retail banking and private motor insurance. These are not the main points, the point is that Zhou Shi bought the debts of the two American businessmen in order to buy the Liverpool football team, and thus crossed paths with them. In addition, Hicks and Gillette, the American bosses of the Red Army, don't know what crazy they had, and they actually invested tens of millions of dollars in it before the Madoff scam was exposed in 2008, which has nothing to do with Zhou Shi, yes, absolutely nothing.

"Simon, congratulations on getting the Liverpool football team soon, I hope Liverpool can develop better in your hands. Stephen Hearst of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will be the CEO of the future if history does not change.

It is also a bad year, or too ambitious, blindly expanding before the crisis, or perhaps someone set up a situation and bought a junk asset ABN AMRO, which has become the worst and most inopportune M&A in the history of international banking M&A. As a result, on February 26 this year, the Royal Bank of Scotland announced its financial report, with a loss of 24.1 billion pounds (about 34.3 billion US dollars) in 2008, setting a record for the largest loss of a British company, and the stock fell to a terrible loss. Fortunately, with the support of the empire, the sun never sets, and several large-scale financial assistance in a row stabilized the situation, and at the same time nationalized the RBS. And it shouldn't have been, he actually invested 1 billion pounds in Madoff, facing the possibility of losing his money.

"Of course, Liverpool is in my hands, and it will be no worse than those two Yankees, but there are still a lot of troubles in between, and I hope you can help me. Zhou Shi knows that the acquisition of such a widely influential football club in the United Kingdom is not only a matter of money, football affects all aspects of British society, if the team, stars, and fans are opposed, Zhou Shi basically has no possibility of successful acquisition, but capital knows how to be flexible, and there are many people to help Zhou Shi avoid possible risks, of course, if there is a camel like RBS who is about to die to help, the effect will be much better.

"No problem, wrap it up on me. "Stephen Hearst

Everyone can brag, and patting their chests to ensure that it is not only a habit that Chinese people have after drinking, and crooked nuts, especially financial elites, will also behave like this if they do not drink. Of course, Zhou Shi will not believe it easily, but he also doesn't care, the troubled RBS will not be perfunctory for a huge rich man like Zhou Shi, especially a huge rich man with a lot of influence in the financial field.

"By the way, did you say that before Madoff turned himself in, did he transfer his wealth?" Zhou Shi

"There should be, the latest report is still very accurate. "Stephen Hearst

Madoff's affair has intensified, and the news media has paid a lot of attention, even after two months, there is still a lot of heat. People who pay attention to finance and economics in particular are more concerned about this, and RBS has invested 1 billion pounds in Madoff, which is not a small amount.

"I thought so, I was still suspicious, and then I invested in a company called Palantir, and the Pentagon also had a lot of cooperation with them. They have come to some conclusions through their own technology, which is the big data analysis they are best at, and the accuracy rate is still good from now. "Zhou Shi is nonsense, how can he have time to go to Palantir to learn about Madoff's situation, besides, Zhou Shi, who has already laid out the layout, really doesn't necessarily know less than them.

"Oh, yes, this company has a way of doing things like this, too?" Hearst

It is said that with more information, they can even find out where Madoff's money is hiding through big data analysis. "Zhou Shi

"Big data analytics? What's that......" Stephen Hirst

"It's what Palantir does best, and it's what they do. Big data analysis is ......" Zhou Shi introduced the situation of Palantir and the basic knowledge of big data, in fact, big data has long been applied in banks and other financial institutions, but it may not have such a clear concept as now.

"Can Palantir really find the money that Madoff transferred?" said Stephen Hirst's face was a little uncertain.

"I don't dare to pack tickets, but the sooner we provide information, the more detailed the data and the higher the accuracy. The Pentagon's view is still credible!" Zhou Shi was not in a hurry

"Then I'm going to try it!" Stephen Hearst felt that a rich man like Zhou Shi should not deceive people, it was too unworthy, but why did Zhou Shi do this? Hearst did not believe that Zhou Shi would do something that did no good.

"By the way, how does the Royal Bank of Scotland deal with the current financial crisis, does it have assets that God needs to deal with?" Zhou Shi saw some of the other party's suspicions, and pushed the boat along the river, he didn't think it was too complicated, but his way of thinking was a little strange, and he often liked to take a detour to solve a problem. This time, the purpose of introducing the business to the future big data unicorn Palantir is to increase their influence, to keep them busy and not talk nonsense, and to express gratitude for the Liverpool football team and increase communication with the big names in the European financial circle. It can be said that many problems can be solved through one thing, so why not?

That's right, Hearst suddenly understood, another vulture interested in RBS, but the reality is that he doesn't have much to do. One more person is a good thing for RBS, and now is not the time to be impressed.

"Some of our assets in Asia are being transferred!" said Hearst

(End of chapter)