“…… Not long ago, there was news that Kowloon Bank held a large amount of foreign exchange and might make an investment in the near future. A reporter from this newspaper also tracked the scene at this time, a few days ago, someone accidentally bumped into the scene of Song Nianhui, president of the Bank of Kowloon, Su Haiwen, chairman of Global Shipping, and Wu Guangzheng, chairman of Wheelock. ”

"The discord between Su and Wu over the separation of the ship king is a well-known thing in Hong Kong. Song Nianhui invited these two to meet, which must be unusual. Therefore, out of curiosity, the reporter of this newspaper further investigated and accidentally found that the Kowloon Bank, or the wealthy Lin family behind it, seemed to be secretly negotiating a deal with the two members of the ship king family! ”

"When it comes to the ship king family, people think of the two pillar industries of shipping and real estate. But shipping is complex and subject to the economy, and the Lin Xiaozhi family, who has never touched this business, will not get involved easily, and Lin Xiaozhi's dislike of real estate is well known, and it is well known that ATV has an ATV under his name, and it is expected that he will not be interested in Wharf TV, so the only thing that can arouse Lin Xiaozhi's interest in the shipking family is the shares of Standard Chartered Bank! ”

"A few years ago, Standard Chartered was subjected to a hostile takeover by Lloyds Bank, and the top management of Standard Chartered invited Bao Yugang, Qiu Depuat and Robert Houm to raise more than one billion pounds to defeat Lloyd, and the Shipwah family was once the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank. Although there have been reductions in recent years, the ship king family still holds more than 100 million Standard Chartered shares! ”

"According to our survey, the share price of Standard Chartered Bank, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, has risen steadily by 31% over the past few months. 7%, which is not normal for Standard Chartered Bank, which did not satisfy its investors with last year's performance and had a sharp drop in stock price after the annual report was announced at the beginning of the year, and it is obvious that there are funds that are slowly and massively eating into Standard Chartered shares! ”

In mid-May, Australian hotel giant Robert Holm admitted that he had recently sold all 41 million shares of Standard Chartered to a Hong Kong bank. Just a week before he exposed the selling incident, Kowloon Bank President Song Nianhui "just happened" to go to Australia for a "vacation", during which he also stayed in Singapore for a short time, and was exposed by the media to have visited Khoo Teck Put, the largest private shareholder of Standard Chartered, and the results speak for themselves! All doubts point to the fact that Lin Xiaozhi's family is waiting for an opportunity to initiate the acquisition of Standard Chartered, an old British bank! ”

The Hong Kong Economic Times quickly caused a tsunami in Hong Kong after the news was exposed on the front page of a new issue.

Although Standard Chartered Bank is far less powerful than its old rival HSBC, one of the only two Hong Kong dollar-issuing banks, Standard Chartered has a superhuman status and popularity in Hong Kong, even Citigroup, Morgan, Mitsubishi, UBS, Deutsche and other international banks ranked among the top 500 in the world, but in Hong Kong can not challenge the status and popularity of Standard Chartered.

Therefore, once it was revealed that the Lin Xiaozhi family, a super wealthy family that has risen rapidly in Hong Kong in recent years, is waiting for an opportunity to acquire Standard Chartered, its Chinese identity is destined to attract the attention of all walks of life in Hong Kong as soon as the news is exposed.

As the main victim, Lin Xiaozhi is in Egypt for the final filming of the movie, so the media naturally cannot harass him. But Song Nianhui, another president of the Kowloon Bank who appeared in the report of the Hong Kong Economic Times, was not so lucky, and for a while, the outside of the Kowloon Bank building was full of media reporters trying to get inside news.

"Mr. Song, the Hong Kong Economic Times recently reported that you went to Australia not long ago in the name of 'vacation' and acquired the Standard Chartered shares held by Robert Hum, what is your explanation for the revelations of the Hong Kong Economic Times?"

"It's inconvenient for me to say anything about this!"

"Mr. Song, regarding the recent media exposure that your Kowloon Bank is seeking to acquire Standard Chartered Bank, is this true?"

“…… Sorry, no comment! ”

Although Song Nianhui was very tight-mouthed, and did not cooperate with the media's interviews. But from beginning to end, no matter what the media asked, although he did not express his position, he never denied it once.

So some smart people quickly determined that the Lin family's acquisition of Standard Chartered might be true, on the one hand, they continued to harass him with a very high exposure rate and now Lin Xiaozhi's eldest brother Lin Xiaoyi, who has now turned to politics, and at the same time, the major media and newspapers in Hong Kong are even more lively.

"In the face of media questions, Song Nianhui tacitly acquiesced that Kowloon Bank was in action, or had eaten a sufficient number of Standard Chartered shares!"

"The whereabouts of billions of mysterious foreign exchange have been made clear, Kowloon Bank is plotting to acquire Standard Chartered, and Lin Xiaozhi wants to achieve the glory of the first Chinese bank!"

"Lin Xiaoyi did not deny that his younger brother is trying to buy Standard Chartered, and the Standard Chartered acquisition war has begun!"

Suddenly, even many wealthy families and forces in Hong Kong who are good friends with the Lin family are also curious to ask them to sound, and after the vague, affirmative, or tacit answers flow out, more and more people in Hong Kong have begun to believe that the powerful Lin family seems to have really done something to the old British-funded consortium of Standard Chartered.

The matter is here, where can the senior management of Standard Chartered Bank sit still.

Zhuang Beisi, who had just taken over as the president of Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, immediately held a press conference and said at the meeting: "...... We have not received any news about the acquisition of Standard Chartered...... Yes, Standard Chartered's share price has been climbing in the past six months, but this doesn't mean much, perhaps some investors are optimistic about the prospects of Standard Chartered...... No, we have not been in contact with Kowloon Bank before, because we all know that with the strength of Kowloon Bank, it is impossible to complete the acquisition of our Standard Chartered. However, we will consider sending a telegram to the Kowloon Bank to inquire about ...... later."

Although he wanted to show a calm appearance at the press conference, the media still saw Zhuang Beisi's panic.

In fact, two or three months ago, when Standard Chartered's share price rose by more than 15 percentage points from the end of last year, the bank's senior management noticed something strange and suspected that there might be a force buying Standard Chartered shares from the London Stock Exchange. They thought that they had been coveted by a banking giant in the United Kingdom, so they launched a series of inquiries about their connections, and the key object of suspicion was the "Lloyds Bank", known as the British capital hooligan, which launched a hostile takeover of Standard Chartered only a few years ago.

It is no wonder that Standard Chartered will be suspicious of Lloyd, Lloyd took a fancy to the Hong Kong dollar issuance qualification held by Standard Chartered, and when the senior management estimated that the general trend of Hong Kong's return to the motherland was irreversible, some people predicted that if Standard Chartered retained the Hong Kong dollar issuance right in the future, it was likely to be very expensive (in fact, in the 90s, out of fear and ignorance of Red China, many people in Europe and the United States were either far-sighted, or just maliciously touted and widely publicized' The idea that the 21st century belongs to China" was once predicted in Europe and the United States that if China maintained its current pace of development, it would surpass the United States in power by 2010.) Based on this judgment, it only took them a few days to absorb more than 12% of the Standard Chartered shares from the stock market and some small shareholders of Standard Chartered, and then proudly convened a general meeting of shareholders and announced to the outside world that they would launch a comprehensive acquisition of 'Standard Chartered'.

As a result, Lloyd was complacent too early, although Standard Chartered was far less powerful than the capital hooligans, but invited three white knights, relying on the strong financial resources of these three white knights to defeat Lloyd, forcing its top management to spend at least a billion pounds more just to gamble on an uncertain future, or to make a small profit and withdraw the second choice.

But no one at Standard Chartered would believe that Lloyds Bank, the only 'capital hooligan' they had bullied, had willingly withdrawn from the acquisition. Later, although Lloyd sold most of his Standard Chartered shares to Aberdeen Asset Management, Schroders Group and some small institutions close to him, he still held close to 6% of Standard Chartered shares, which shows that Lloyd still has thoughts about Standard Chartered.

But after Standard Chartered launched a relationship inquiry, it was found that Lloyd did not make any moves. In fact, when they sniped at the pound with international fast money last year, they didn't have time to clean up because they held a lot of bullish long orders on the pound, and they were caught off guard by the more vicious international fast money.

At that time, Standard Chartered was not at ease, and inquired about other British-funded banking institutions in China, but still did not find anyone coveting him, and the Bank of Kowloon used a lot of retail investors to disperse and absorb Standard Chartered shares, because each household did not reach a certain amount to be able to hold a shareholders' meeting as a shareholder. So after a frightened heartbeat, the senior management of Standard Chartered relieved their hearts, only that with the return of Hong Kong approaching, some small and medium-sized institutions are optimistic about the future prospects of the bank and have increased their investment in Standard Chartered. But they didn't want to be exposed by the Hong Kong media for only a few months, and the Kowloon Bank was beating their idea.

Chong Beth is sure that Kowloon Bank's strength is not enough to acquire Standard Chartered, which is true. But the problem is that everyone knows that the Kowloon Bank is nothing, but there is still a Lin Xiaozhi family standing behind the Kowloon Bank, as a Hong Kong super giant that has risen rapidly in recent years, Rao is Zhuang Beth was also just sent to Hong Kong by the Standard Chartered London headquarters in 91 years as the president of the branch, and two years is enough for him to understand the legend and strong financial resources of this family.

Lin Xiaozhi alone has a listed group with a market value comparable to that of Standard Chartered, and he also owns a television station and a number of media, and the industry has revealed several times that his talent in investment is also unrivaled, and it was once reported that he made more than one billion yuan by gambling on oil futures during the Gulf War, and this number is becoming more and more evil, and it is said that the Lin family also has a lot of investment in the mainland. And just last month, Lin Xiaozhi's Media Asia Film Group just spent nearly 4 billion Hong Kong dollars to buy a British cinema chain from the international record giant Polygram.

Although a press conference was held to temporarily calm people's hearts, as soon as the press conference ended, Zhuang Beisi invited Song Nianhui, president of the Bank of Kowloon, to participate in a private cocktail party, and after being politely refused, Sir Daria, who had just been promoted to chairman of the board of directors of Standard Chartered Bank two years ago, hurriedly flew from London to Hong Kong.