In fact, John Rupert, who had just returned to Europe from South Africa, was furious at the headquarters of his Richemont group in Switzerland and the chairman's office.

"Shit! You guys are all shit, Jaeger-LeCoultre, A. Lange & Söhne... , These brands are about to be acquired by others, I just saw from the media, are you all eating shi?"

Looking at a group of Richemont executives in the office, John Rupert was angry, he had just left Europe for a few days, and he didn't expect that several of his favorite watch brands were remembered by the Sawa Group on the other side.

On the other side of the century, the Sawa Group can not be underestimated, everyone knows that behind it is a big financier like Li Feng, and Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lange & Söhne and other watch brands are related to the development strategy of the Richemont Group, if you want to compete with the Sawa Group on the other side, it will be difficult to win these brands, no wonder Rupert is angry.

In fact, this is also the reason why John Rupert immediately hung up the phone to Li Feng as soon as he returned to Europe, and Rupert was glad that he had acquired some shares of Standard Bank before, and now he has a hole card in his hand, and the hole card is naturally the shares of Standard Bank.

Originally, Rupert's idea was to forgive Li Feng for a few days, and then contact and then bring the representative and CEO of Standard Bank to the door, so as to hold the initiative in the negotiation, but now he had to advance and completely disrupted his plan.

"Boss, what should we do next?"

"Shit...!What else can I do, haven't you all seen it, I just talked to someone on the phone, and now I have to negotiate with them to see if I can get them to abandon the acquisition plan, so that we don't have direct competition with him. ”

A group of executives of Richemont Group, seeing the current situation, shrunk their necks, there is no way, the next thing is no longer for this group of executives to participate in, just wait for the news of their boss.

……

Li Feng returned to London in the afternoon of the same day, no way, it was not far from Sweden to the United Kingdom, and Li Feng's private jet was ready at any time, so he would soon return to London.

Similarly, after hanging up the phone with Li Feng, John Rupert also began to arrange, and then on the same day, he followed Li Feng and arrived in London on his own private jet, but it was relatively late, and Li Feng had not been contacted for the time being.

Returned to London, hugged the three beauties and slept comfortably for a night, the next morning, refreshed Li Feng was exercising in the gym with the three daughters, but the housekeeper William came over with Li Feng's personal mobile phone.

"Sir, there is your number, it is Mr. John Rupert, who said that he had made an appointment with him. ”

"Oh... , take it, call so early, so urgent?" Li Feng paused for a moment, stopped the movement of his hand, and said to himself in a somewhat surprised tone.

While wiping the sweat with a towel, he took the phone and spoke directly into the microphone: "Rupert, hello, why did you call so early, did you bring me any good news?"

"John, maybe it's good news, the CEO of Standard Bank is with me now, he is here on behalf of the board of directors and shareholders of Standard Bank, how about contacting first, how about it, are you interested in talking?"

A familiar and hearty voice came from the other end of the phone, it was the voice of John Rupert, who had met before.

"Wow... Rupert, this should be good news for me, OK, I think I will be very interested in talking to Mr. CEO and expressing my wishes, and I am also looking forward to the arrival of Mr. CEO and you, Rupert. ”

"Haha... Okay, John, we'll see you in the afternoon, and I'll bring someone to your house when the time comes, how about that?"

"Of course, that's great, I'm waiting at home!"

"Bye-bye...!"

……

After talking to John Rupert on the phone, Li Feng also finished his gym workout, but after washing up, he ate breakfast, and then took a copy of the information about Standard Bank and flipped through it, after all, it is always good to face the old fox in the afternoon and make some preparations.

For Standard Bank, Li Feng naturally has some understanding at present, after all, if you want to acquire the other party, it is inevitable to collect the necessary information, Standard Bank originally merged with Standard Chartered to establish Standard Chartered Bank.

Unfortunately, in the end, in 87, due to South African political factors, Standard Chartered withdrew from South Africa, sold its stake in Standard Bank, and lost its controlling stake.

Standard Bank's holding company is South Africa's Standard Bank Group, a comprehensive banking group integrating banking, finance, securities, and insurance.

The current market value of the entire Standard Bank Group is about 4 billion US dollars, and it is reasonable for Li Feng to ask people to quote 4 billion, of course, if you really want to buy this price, you must still raise it a little, and it is quite normal to buy at a premium.

Similarly, Standard Bank's stake is very fragmented, with Standard Chartered acquiring a 39% stake in Standard Bank, and in fact, the South African Public Investment Corporation, the largest shareholder of Standard Bank Group, only holds about 15% of the shares, and the Public Investment Company is an investment company with a South African state-owned background.

All the rest of the shares are scattered among the large and small, thousands of shareholders, the largest of these shareholders is only about 5%, and even many shareholders may only have 1/10000 or 1/10,000 of the shares.

Today's Standard Bank is still a South African-based bank, and even in Africa except South Africa, there is little participation, and the real expansion of Standard Bank in Africa will be 98 years later, and after the new century, it will expand in the third world, and finally achieve the reputation of the largest bank in Africa.

……

After lunch, while Li Feng was waiting for John Rupert to come to the door, Wu Jianmin brought Zhuang Sibei and Davis, the three of them came together, which was notified by Li Feng before, and now the three are the three giants of the new Standard Chartered.

One is the chairman of the group, the other is the vice chairman and director, and the other is the chief executive officer and director, and now the three are busy with the privatization of Standard Chartered, which is almost completed, and then integrate the resources of all parties to establish Century Standard Chartered Bank Holding Group, referred to as CSCB.

The basic framework has been put in place, and if the acquisition of Standard Bank is successful, the four divisions of the banking group will be formed.

The former Standard Chartered Bank's Americas business and East West Bank's Americas business were integrated into CSCB Americas, which is ready to be listed directly in New York in the future.

The original Greater China Business of Standard Chartered and the Huaxia Business of East West Bank will be integrated into the new CSCB Greater China Region, which will be prepared for listing in Hong Kong in the future;

With the original Standard Chartered Bank removing all businesses except Greater China, the Americas and Africa, the registered place is still in London, and the name of CSCB is still listed in London;

Finally, it is hoped that the Standard Chartered Africa business plus the Standard Banking business will be integrated into CSCB Africa and listed in Johannesburg.

Now the first three have been slowly integrated, the only one is the African region, and its core Standard Bank acquisition is still in the initial contact stage, but with John Rupert pulling the strings in it, coupled with the mainstream of Standard Bank's internal acquisition of the city, Li Feng is full of confidence.

……

When Standard Bank is officially acquired, and that's when the new Standard Chartered is unveiled, it's guaranteed to be a surprise.

Li Feng is still very much looking forward to the arrival of John Rupert and others today.