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Rice Bank probably never imagined that the biggest bank merger and acquisition battle in the UK's history would end up being disrupted by a group of Asians. First of all, Mr. Li Xuan, the world's richest man and the second largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank, officially issued a statement to express his support for the current management of Standard Chartered Bank.

Then, an investment company jointly established by a number of wealthy businessmen suddenly appeared in Hong Kong, announcing that it would participate in the bidding for Standard Chartered shares. The new company plans to buy 23.25 million Standard Chartered shares, which will represent 14.9% of the bank's total share capital, just below the Bank of England's limit of 15% for approval.

After Xu Jiankui received Li Xuan's call, he did not start the acquisition directly as originally planned. Because on the night that Li Xuan called him, Mr. Gordon, the Hong Kong Taipan of Standard Chartered Bank, appeared in Hong Kong ATV's ace political program "Qiang Qiang Threesome".

For the first time, he publicly stated the future development of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is entering a transitional period, and Standard Chartered Bank, which has the power to issue notes, has a special position in Hong Kong's entire financial system. Therefore, Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong needs to make appropriate strategic adjustments according to the changes in the situation.

Standard Chartered headquarters has made a decision to make Standard Chartered Hong Kong an independent subsidiary and officially launch the plan to list on the Hong Kong stock market. After listing, Standard Chartered Bank, a Hong Kong company, will become a Hong Kong public company and give back to the Hong Kong economy and the people of Hong Kong with better services and performance.

In the context of the British-funded consortium led by Jardine Matheson, which continues to move its registered place of business out of Hong Kong, Standard Chartered's move is tantamount to a thunderbolt. Even the Hong Kong stock market immediately responded enthusiastically the next day. The Hang Seng Index surged 4.5% throughout the day.

The news that Hong Kong Standard Chartered will be independently split and listed has completely dispelled the last concerns of those wealthy Hong Kong businessmen who are ready to invest in the acquisition of Standard Chartered shares. Xu Jiankui immediately seized this favorable opportunity. Under the banner of "God of Wealth Lee", he actively carried out the series and successfully mobilized everyone to gather strength together. Strike a fatal blow at Rice Bank.

When Xu Jiankui persuaded others to set up an investment company together to compete for the stake in Standard Chartered, Rice Bank's Standard Chartered stake was only more than 35%. But at this time, Li Xuan, who holds 17.5%, has already announced his opposition to Rice Bank's merger and acquisition.

Kut, a wealthy Australian businessman who also opposes mergers and acquisitions, has also successfully increased his holdings of Standard Chartered shares to 10% in accordance with his original plan. As for the two institutional major shareholders who voted against the previous Standard Chartered board of directors, although they both took the opportunity to reduce some of their Standard Chartered shares, they still hold 8% of Standard Chartered shares.

In other words, if Xu Jiankui and other newly emerging wealthy Hong Kong businessmen successfully complete the scheduled 14.9% increase plan. Then the total stake of the opposition to Rice Bank's acquisition of Standard Chartered will reach 50.4%, which also means that Rice Bank's acquisition plan will go bankrupt directly.

Xu Jiankui's style was indeed very fierce when he first came up, and he entrusted Barclays Capital in the United Kingdom to publicly bid for Standard Chartered shares at a price of 780 pence per share, which was 10 pence higher than the purchase price offered by Rice Bank. Rice Bank then raised the offer to 785p, but not to be outdone, Hui Jiankui quickly raised the purchase price to 790p.

In the midst of a fierce back-and-forth between the two sides, Standard Chartered's shares soon climbed to 810 pence per share. But Xu Jiankui's purchase price still pressed Rice Bank to death. And it only took three days. Xu Jiankui's stake in Standard Chartered reached 7%.

But just then, a new spoiler emerged. Singaporean banker Khoo Tak Bak suddenly announced that he had bought a 5% stake in Standard Chartered. He is also a staunch supporter of Standard Chartered's existing board of directors and opposes Rice's merger. That is, shareholders who oppose the merger. The total number of shares held in the hands has reached 47.4%.

And Rice Bank is under the joint sniping of the opponents who continue to appear. The actual acquisition of Standard Chartered equity is less than 40%. In this extremely unfavorable situation, the board of directors of Rice Bank weighed it twice. In the end, it was decided to abandon the plan to acquire Standard Chartered Bank!

After successfully thwarting Rice Bank's hostile takeover, Standard Chartered's management naturally had to repay their friends for supporting them at great cost. You know, after Rice Bank officially announced that it was abandoning the acquisition. Standard Chartered's share price plummeted immediately, from 815p to 719p per share.

Market analysts are generally pessimistic in predicting that the price of Standard Chartered shares has not yet hit the bottom and may fall until around 650p per share before the merger war.

Taking Li Xuan's 17.5% stake as an example, he did not choose to sell his Standard Chartered shares to Rice Bank when the stock price rose to its highest point, and at the current stock price, it has generated a book impairment of more than 27 million pounds.

Standard Chartered's stock price fell in retaliation, which was just a loss of a profit opportunity for Li Xuan, but he didn't actually lose anything, after all, he had already held these shares long before the stock price rose. But for Xu Jiankui and other people who later joined the acquisition war, what they lost was real money.

Among them, the biggest loss was Xu Jiankui, the leader, who, as the convener of the bidding action, had a large amount of cash prepared for him by Li Xuan in advance. Therefore, when contacting other people, Xu Jiankui said that he could go up first and buy time for everyone to raise funds.

In order to acquire the 7% of Standard Chartered shares, the group of them consumed a total of 87 million pounds, while Xu Jiankui spent all the 62 million pounds prepared by Li Xuan. Therefore, he accounts for the largest proportion of newly established investment companies, and has to bear the largest share price loss.

Fortunately, he was just helping Li Xuan buy on his behalf, so he wasn't really distressed. However, after Mr. Xu Jiankui announced that he was going to split and list the Hong Kong Standard Chartered Company, Mr. Cashton, after announcing that he was going to split and list the Hong Kong Standard Chartered Company, he had already vaguely guessed Li Xuan's intentions.

Therefore, after Rice Bank announced that it would abandon the merger plan, he was the first to stand up and ask Standard Chartered Bank to speed up the listing process of the Hong Kong company as soon as possible. Xu Jiankui also asked the board of directors of Standard Chartered to allow them investors to take their own shares. Conversion to equity interest in Hong Kong subsidiary.

Although the senior management of Standard Chartered had reached a similar agreement with Li Xuan before, it was forced to agree to the alliance under the city as a last resort. Standard Chartered was naturally reluctant to give up control of the Hong Kong company. Their original idea was to use delaying tactics as much as possible.

But Li Xuan didn't expect the small actions that the senior management of Standard Chartered might take. So he immediately asked for a re-election of the Standard Chartered Board of Directors. Li Xuan wants to restructure the Standard Chartered board of directors to nine seats, and at the same time supports Xu Jiankui and Qiu Debai to join the board of Standard Chartered.

The total number of shares in the hands of Li Xuan, Xu Jiankui and Qiu Debai has accounted for 30% of the total share capital of Standard Chartered, and the requirement to obtain 3 seats is also reasonable. And Hong Kong newspapers also published in due course, Li Xuan had dinner with the two and had a good conversation.

If Li Xuan's proposal is really passed, then the alliance of the three Chinese will become a powerful force in the board of directors of Standard Chartered, which will inevitably form a serious fetters to the management's decision-making.

Therefore, for the management of Standard Chartered, the lesser of two harms can only be achieved. Adopted with shares of Standard Chartered Hong Kong. to replace the shares of Standard Chartered Group in the hands of Li Xuan and others. In order to reduce their influence on the board of directors of the group, it is a way to abandon the car and protect the commander.

So when Xu Jiankui came forward to beat the side drum, Li Xuan quickly reached a preliminary compromise with the board of directors of Standard Chartered on the issue of equity replacement. As for the details of the specific replacement ratio, the two sides will inevitably need to sit down and discuss it in detail. After all, whether it is Standard Chartered Bank or Li Xuan, they will definitely keep as much equity as possible in Standard Chartered in Hong Kong.

And this kind of negotiation is bound to be compared, and naturally there is no need for Li Xuan, the big boss, to come forward in person. His team will fix this problem before Hong Kong's Standard Chartered company goes public.

The bottom line given by Li Xuan is to obtain at least 40% of the shares in listed companies. Of course, if you can reach 45%, it is the best. That would keep 30% of the shares of Standard Chartered Group, and then issue 25% of the new shares to the public, and everything would be perfect.

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Putting aside the matter of Standard Chartered Bank for the time being, Li Xuan is attending the board of directors of Standard Chartered. After returning to Hong Kong from London, I received good news. After a year and a half of the GameBoy-2 project, a full-fledged prototype was finally produced.

"Li Sheng. This GameBoy-2 truly separates the machine and the card. This memory card produced by Dongfang Semiconductor is divided into two types of regular cards: 28K and 56K. Used to load normal games. In addition, there are super large capacity cards that we have specially developed for Pokémon, with a storage capacity of 112K!" Du Wenqiang said, pointing to three small cards that look exactly the same in the palm of his hand, one centimeter square.

Du Wenqiang said and picked up the new orange handheld on the table. Take off its back cover, and then continue to introduce: "GameBoy-2 adopts the latest liquid crystal display technology developed by the Oriental Research Institute, although it is far inferior to the picture of the TV, but compared to the previous GameBoy-1, the picture quality has been much more delicate! The game console uses three rechargeable small batteries, which can last for 4 hours in a slow state!"

While explaining, Du Wenqiang inserted a game card into the game card slot, then reinstalled the back cover of the game console, and then long pressed and held the on/off button of the game console, and waited until the game console screen lit up before releasing the button. He just inserted the game card of "Pokémon", so after the game console finishes booting, he directly enters the game start screen of "Pokémon".

"The game card comes with a storage function, which can save the player's game progress, such as all kinds of pet treasures they have collected and cultivated! When the player first starts the game, the game program will release a series of small tasks to help the player become familiar with the way the game is played, and the text introduction is accompanied by the game background!" Du Wenqiang said and handed the game console to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan followed the instructions of the game characters to quickly familiarize himself with how to breed and train his pet treasures, and how to let his pet treasures fight! It only took about ten minutes for Xiao Zhi, a novice trainer controlled by Li Xuan, to leave his hometown and embark on a journey to travel the entire Pokémon continent!

"Li Sheng, the most interesting thing about this "Pokémon" is that the two game consoles can play against each other online, we can try it now!" Du Wenqiang had already taken out a new game console from the desk drawer when Li Xuan was immersed in the game.

On the screen of the game console in Li Xuan's hand, a dialog box quickly popped up inviting the battle. After his choice was confirmed, the two consoles quickly completed the networking. The game then enters Arena mode, where each player can send their three strongest Pokémon to battle.

Li Xuan only had a total of three Pokémon that he had just collected during the mission, two of which had not undergone any combat training, and their level was still at level zero. The only Pokémon that only has combat experience is a Pikachu that was given to the protagonist Ash by the doctor in the plot at the beginning of the game, but its current level is only at level 3.

In the battle frame, Du Wenqiang's first Pokémon was as high as level 10, so Li Xuan's three treasures were defeated in the face of the disparity in power.

"In the game, Pokémon go through a strength threshold every 5 levels. If the level gap between the two treasures is more than five levels, there will be a situation of being crushed!" Du Wenqiang said with a fluttering eyebrow, "I'll send you a few Pokémon now, you can receive them!"

As soon as Du Wenqiang finished speaking, a dialog box popped up in Li Xuan's game to exchange game treasures. The two parties can exchange up to three pet babies at a time, of course, Li Xuan did not return his three treasures to the other party, but chose to receive them unilaterally.

"We've also limited the Pokémon in the game, each pet can only be copied up to 3 times, and the duplicate can't be cloned anymore!At the same time, the player only has 5 pet balls initially, so you must now give up the original pet to take over the 3 Pokémon I passed to you.

If you want to increase the number of pet balls, you can only have up to 12 pet balls per player by leveling up or doing quests. In this way, every pet in the player's hands is very precious, and everyone needs to carefully plan their own development route from the beginning!" Du Wenqiang said and launched a team leader request to Li Xuan.

The 3 pet babies that Li Xuan got were between level 8 and 10, and the strength of the 3 pets sent by Du Wenqiang was comparable, but he was still defeated quickly!

Du Wen** laughed twice before continuing to explain: "In this "Pokémon" game, in addition to level suppression, there is also attribute suppression. For example, the water attribute pet I just used has a damage bonus when fighting against your fire attribute pet. And your fire-attribute pet, if you encounter a wood-type pet, you can also get a damage bonus!"

Li Xuan hadn't played the original version of Pokemon on Nintendo's GameBoy in his previous life, so he couldn't compare it to the GameBoy-2 and Pokémon that Oriental Games is now developing. But after half an hour of personal experience, he found that the game in his hand had exceeded his original expectations and gave him a lot of surprise......s!