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Chapter 935 Time Weekly

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"In 2002, at the table of the global banking industry, we ushered in a super banking group that ranked No. 1 in Africa, No. 14 in Asia, No. 16 in the Americas, surpassing the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and No. 25 in the world's banks!"

“…… As of January 25, 2001, the share price of Standard Chartered Bank, which has a total share capital of 1 billion, has risen to 623 Hong Kong dollars per share on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and 59 pounds per share on the London Stock Exchange!"

“…… But compared to this super bank group, which has reached a market capitalization of $54.7 billion and whose stock price is still rising steadily, we are more curious about the controller behind it...... In the list of shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank, in addition to a large number of public investors and investment institutions with few shares in their hands, there are three that are the most eye-catching, they are the Chinese China Bank Group from Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands-registered and Wall-Street headquartered Dingsheng Fund, and the Chinese Dong Liu! They hold 26%, 33% and 9% of the shares of the Standard Chartered Bank Group respectively!

"After our investigation, the bank from Hong Kong, which has such a familiar name, has nothing to do with the Hanhua Industrial Bank, which was bought by JPMorgan Chase Bank at the end of the last century, and its predecessor is Chong Hing Bank, which is controlled by the wealthy local family of Hong Kong, the Liu family. ”

But in December last year, Chong Hing Bank was wholly acquired and delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and changed to the Chinese China Bank Group. In the following half a month, it acquired all the shares of Zhejiang-Jiang First Bank from Japan's Ruihua Group. This makes it a medium-sized bank with 113 branches!"

"Also. We have reason to believe that the stake in Standard Chartered Bank in the hands of China Bank comes from the three white knights who saved Standard Chartered Bank from being bought by Lloyds Bank at the end of the last century - Khoo Teck Put, the Bao family, and Australian real estate tycoon Robert!"

"It's just that in this acquisition battle, the three white knights didn't help like last time!"

“…… Now this one is located in Hong Kong and has risen rapidly in the last two months. The Hanhua Bank Group, a large bank with total assets of more than $35 billion, has become the 239th most powerful financial force in the world, and any business and political person should keep enough attention to it, but unfortunately we don't know anything about the behind-the-scenes controller of the rapidly rising Oriental Banking Group!"

"But what is certain is that it is a real private bank and has no connection to the Chinese government in the Far East!"

"Compared with Hong Kong's Hanhua Bank Group, which is still relatively traceable, the Cayman Islands-registered Dingsheng Fund Investment Bank seems to be more mysterious. Last October, news of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan dominated almost all media headlines in the United States, whether it was television, newspapers, or even radio and the Internet. So no one cares about David Coleman's offshore company in the Cayman Islands. Although he was once the global vice president of Morgan Stanley, the president of the investment management division. And has an enviable brilliant resume and experience in the financial field, but as the world's largest wealth concentration, Wall Street is not lacking in investment geniuses!"

But to everyone's surprise, David Coleman, who had just left Morgan Stanley, the world's largest investment bank, quickly returned to the public eye in another way, and now he is no longer the deputy of James Gorman, the CEO of 'Big Mo', but an equal to the other party as a kind of boss. ”

Although everyone believes that there is a more powerful financial force behind David Coleman, but without any relevant information about it, we can only judge from David Coleman that this new large investment bank, which controls 33% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank, controls the shares of a number of listed companies, and has entered the board of directors of Internet companies such as Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, etc., and has assets of more than 18.5 billion US dollars! ”

"...... if I was only surprised by the emergence of the Chinese Hua Bank Group and Dingsheng Fund, I was shocked to see the name of an Oriental on the list of shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank, because he had no connection to any known Chinese billionaire, and even two years ago, he was just an ordinary young man who set up a stall in the thrift market in Quancheng, a second-tier city in Red China, in the East, working for his own future, but in less than two years, he has risen rapidly at a speed that shocked everyone, from an ordinary person who may not even have a bank balance of $20,000, transformed into the owner of three large conglomerates with assets of more than $1 billion, and the other party also owns 9% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank, which is a huge asset worth $5 billion!"

"We have reason to believe that if the other party is willing to let his three groups go public, Forbes will consider adding a new friend from the East to the top 10 of the world's richest list!"

"And interestingly, this super-rich man named Liu Dong, from Eastern China, has the 'Presidential Medal of Freedom' issued by the United States of America! Because in the super disaster that almost destroyed the entire United States last year, he defeated at least 9 Taliban bandits, and successfully forced landed in the desert 80 kilometers outside Phoenix in a hijacked Boeing 747, and successfully rescued 213 Americans! God testify, I like this Chinese! And every American should be grateful to him, especially the government, because if it weren't for this valiant knight from the East, maybe we wouldn't have been able to see the brain of the United States in Washington, D.C. - the White House! I can't imagine what would have happened to the United States without the brain, the stock market crashed, the factories closed down massively, the unemployment surged, and even more wars, thank God, this terrible scene did not happen!"

"Of course, I like this Chinese, and even thank him for saving the entire United States of America, as a man, I am also deeply jealous of him, because it took him less than two years to successfully transform himself from an ordinary person to a super-rich man worth tens of billions of dollars, which is an achievement that Bill Gates, who was originally known as the 'son of God', did not have!"

"Although he is only a high school student and has not even obtained a high school diploma, his business talent is beyond doubt! Maybe in another ten years, we will see a wealth contender from the East, and I have enough reason to believe that the top three on the Forbes rich list will be replaced by a Chinese name - Liu Dong!"

"In addition, the beauties of the world are blessed, our new super-rich man is still a young man who is only 22 years old, and he is not married, if anyone can get Liu's 'heart', then she will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life, and she will leap into high society!"

In the last paragraph, Liu Dong skimmed by, looked at the signature at the end of the article, Moore Carris, a name he had never heard of, turned two pages back, and after seeing the news that was not what he was interested in, Liu Dong closed the page and put the magazine aside!

Although Time Magazine investigated in detail, there were many things they did not know, such as the equity of Standard Chartered Bank! After a merger, Liu Dong directly or indirectly controlled 83.27% of the shares of the new bank, occupying an absolute controlling stake!

In addition to those that were exposed by Time Magazine, about 15.27% of the remaining shares were dispersed by Liu Dong in Bank of America, Darren Group, Kodi Mining Group, and ICQ Instant Messaging Company, and in the hands of these absolutely controlled companies, each of which has no more than 5% of the shares, so it is not prominent, and the relationship between the two companies that are not listed is not eye-catching!

Although taking the initiative to expose the 9% equity brought some attention to Liu Dong himself, he understood that the best way to hide something was not to completely remove himself, but to put it in a seemingly reasonable glass cover, and the true and false were the most difficult to distinguish.

And properly exposing some strength will also make it easier for him to act in the future!

However, what makes Liu Dong even happier is that his hard work was finally not in vain, investing $15 billion and owing the Rockefeller family a huge debt of $10.7 billion, and now it seems that all this is worth it!

After a lot of hard work, he finally took control of a super bank with total assets of more than $400 billion!

And now the shareholders' equity of Standard Chartered Bank has reached 54.7 billion US dollars, and Liu Dong controls 83.27% of the equity, which is 45.55 billion US dollars!

This means that after deducting the loan provided by the Rockefeller family, Liu Dong's wealth has risen by $34.85 billion in an instant! Although these are stocks, they are also real wealth!

As long as Liu Dong is willing, after the stock price of Standard Chartered Bank stabilizes, he can completely cash out of the stock market!

Of course, Liu Dong was also going to do this, for him, the role of Standard Chartered Bank is more to provide financial support, just maintain a controlling stake, there is no need to maintain absolute control like the American Commercial Bank and Hanhua Bank Group!

"By the way, I said good news, what is the bad news?" After reacting, Liu Dong turned his head and said.

"I'm afraid it's hard to complete what you plan to invest in Jinzhong City!"

As she spoke, Lin Ling handed over a document again, and the content of the document was the investigation report provided by the asset appraisers, lawyers and investment and M&A personnel of Hanhua Securities, as well as the respective conditions of the two parties after the first round ......of negotiations with the Jinzhong Municipal Government!