047 Citibank

Early the next morning, Li Feng woke up early in the morning to go to the Citibank Center at 444 South Flower Street in Los Angeles.

For this famous high-rise building in Los Angeles, even Li Feng is lonely and unheard, after all, he has been in Los Angeles for more than 10 years, and he has heard of it for a long time.

Yesterday, I also made a point to learn that as the second largest city in the United States, Citibank certainly has its headquarters in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Citibank Center Building, 191 meters high, 48 floors, Los Angeles 12th tallest building, completed in 1979, with a construction area of more than 80,000 square meters, is located in the commercial center near Pershing Square, a landmark in Los Angeles.

As for Pershing Square, as long as it is a person in Los Angeles or even California, it is very familiar, it is one of the landmarks of Los Angeles and even California, a major place for citizens to live and entertain in the urban area of Los Angeles, and the surrounding natural business is prosperous.

The location of the Citibank Center is a testament to its extraordinary status in the United States.

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Citibank is definitely a big bank in the world, even the unheard of people have heard of Citibank, Citibank has always been the flagship of its parent company, Citigroup.

Later, the "Citi Extreme Black Card" was known as the only black card comparable to the "Amex Centurion Card", and it is famous for its unique service concept.

One of the things that really made Citi the world's banking representative was after it merged with the Travelers Group in '98 to form the new Citigroup.

Citigroup became the first financial group in the United States to integrate financial services such as commercial banking, investment banking, insurance, funds, and securities trading.

This merger is known as a model of financial group merger, the original Citigroup is mainly commercial banks, Traveler is mainly financial insurance, after the merger complemented each other, became a comprehensive large financial group, for the later merger of large banking groups in the United States made a good start.

For example, Morgan Stanley merged with Manhattan Chase Bank to form JPMorgan Chase, making these financial giants a full-fledged financial services group.

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Citibank is naturally the flagship of Citigroup, allowing Citibank to establish its position in the financial banking industry.

Of course, Citibank also had its ups and downs, such as in the late 80s and early 90s, when it almost went bankrupt, and the world-famous Saudi Prince Wadli invested in Citi in the 90s and made it famous in one fell swoop.

For example, after the subprime mortgage crisis, Citi almost went bankrupt again, and the U.S. imperialist government invested tens of billions of dollars to turn Citi into a safe place.

At its peak, Citigroup had a market value of 300 billion or 400 billion yuan and controlled assets of more than 2 trillion US dollars.

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And why did Li Feng choose Citi instead of choosing banks such as America (later Bank of America) and Wells Fargo, which also have huge influence in the United States?

First, I was influenced by Citi in later generations, and many people in later generations may not have heard of Bank of America and Wells Fargo, but they must have heard of Citibank, although the strength of America and Wells Fargo is not inferior to Citigroup, or even stronger than Citigroup.

Think about the subprime mortgage crisis in the later generations, Citi needed to rely on the bailout of the US imperialist government to tide over the difficulties, while Bank of America and Wells Fargo took the opportunity to acquire and expand, and you can know the strength of these two banks, which is definitely not inferior to Citigroup or even surpasses Citigroup.

Second, Li Feng knows that Citi's financial services are better, especially the personalized services for the super-rich, and think about why the Citi Black Card is known as the Amex Centurion Black Card comparable to the "King of Black Cards".

Li Feng is very confident that he will be one of the super-rich people in the future, and the upcoming money plan after Netscape goes public also needs a professional stock operation team.

And it would be too troublesome for Li Feng to do it himself, and Citi could easily solve these troubles for Li Feng. This is also the reason why Li Feng came to the Citibank Center this time, otherwise he would not have thought of going to the headquarters with millions of deposits.

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When Li Feng and the three arrived at the Citibank Center, Billy Zhang was already waiting for Li Feng and them at the door.

"Hello Mr. John Lee, I'm Billy Chang, Account Manager at Citibank, and it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

Obviously, when Billy Zhang saw the three of them coming, he greeted Li Feng directly, and he should have already known himself.

I have to feel that the service industry of Lao Mei is too developed, and he turned out to be an ordinary account opener, because he suddenly appeared tens of millions of huge funds, and he immediately recognized it when he saw someone for the first time, and obviously he should have investigated himself.

Li Feng also shook his hand and responded, and then introduced Zack, saying that he was a temporary guardian and a part-time private lawyer, and Bob was said to be a bodyguard.

Well, after listening to Li Feng's introduction, Billy was still stunned for a while, thinking that he would bring a private lawyer and bodyguard, thinking that it was a wealthy family, who would have thought that Li Feng's background was an orphan.

Looking at Billy Zhang, who was obviously Chinese, Li Feng smiled. Through conversations, I learned that Citi considered that he might be Chinese through Li Feng's name, so Zhang Billy was allowed to receive it.

It can be seen that these banks are really trying to get a senior customer.

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Billy took Li Feng and the three of them directly to an office on the second floor, and knew through conversation that Li Feng was needed to upgrade the account level this time, and Li Feng was required to sign. Originally, Li Feng thought that these things needed to be done in the bank hall, but they were all done in the office.

Of course, at this time, Zach came in handy, and every time before signing, Zach looked at it, after all, Li Feng knew that the bank was not so kind, and which bank in the future would not break out from time to time with various scandals.

Put away the checkbook, bank card and some documents, and in this way, Li Feng became a top VIP user of Citi, the so-called platinum card customer.

Li Feng took the brand-new checkbook and the new credit card, thinking that we are also people who can sign checks, thinking about the movie plots in his previous life, he just signed checks at every turn, and now he is a little bit of a feeling that he has really begun to enter the life of a rich man.

In addition to the checkbook and the platinum credit card, I thought it wasn't a black card, and I didn't know if I would be invited when the black card was launched.

In my previous life, I have always heard of black cards, but unfortunately there are no black cards in the world at present, when will the black cards be launched, Citigroup, Yuntong and other black card kings have to get a few, used to load 13 is the best.

Thinking of the various pretending 13 slap face plots in later legends, I couldn't help laughing, which surprised Zack and others for a while, thinking that they were so happy to become a Citigroup Gold Card.

After completing all the upgrade procedures, Li Feng was ready to get down to business.

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"Billy, I said on the phone yesterday that I need a real estate agent, I wonder if you can arrange it for me?"

"Mr. Li, I have contacted the real estate agent, and if necessary, I can call someone at any time.

However, I heard that you want to buy a house, and our asset management department asked me to ask, and our bank also has houses, some of which are managed by the bank and some are mortgaged, and they can be sold directly. I don't know if you think it's possible?"

"Yes, that's okay, you can take a look, if there is a suitable one, you can directly settle it. Well, I'll set a price, within 3 or 4 million, preferably on this side of Beverly Hills in Hollywood. Li Feng thought about it for a moment and replied.

"Thanks, that's the best, then you wait a minute, I'll call over there and ask them to bring the property information for your reference." After saying that, he just picked up the phone and dialed up.

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Seeing that the other party was in a hurry, Li Feng smiled helplessly, and was about to say that he had to wait a little longer for the other party to arrange stock operators.