"Sir, would you rather be cash, check, or credit card?"

A bar waiter in a shirt vest holds a tray with bills on it. He respectfully walked up to Zhong Shi and asked in a low voice.

"Cash." Zhong Shi pulled out his wallet as he spoke. Soon after he and Andrew entered the UK, they only exchanged some pounds at the service desk at the airport.

"Would you rather use the pound, the dollar or the yen?" The waiter asked again.

"Uh...... Is there any difference? Zhong Shi's hand holding his wallet stopped. He wondered why this waiter would ask that.

"That's right, sir. We can pay in different currencies here, you're from Japan, right? The waiter smiled and patiently explained.

Although most of the people in the financial city are white, with the rapid rise of the Asian economy in recent years, yellow faces have begun to appear here, and among these people, especially Japanese, are the majority.

Originally, Hong Kong was a British colony, and Hong Kong residents could move to Britain at will, but in the 80s, the British authorities abolished this system because of Hong Kong's imminent return to China, and the Chinese generally lived in the Chinese community, rarely in the city center.

In a place like the Financial City, even an ordinary bar waiter is often exposed to and knows a lot of financial knowledge. In such an ordinary bar, there is also a screen showing the real-time currency exchange rate, which is full of professional taste.

"I'm from Huaxia!" Zhong Shi was a little annoyed, and his most disgusting thing was naturally being recognized as a short islander. Although he was silent on the surface, he secretly slandered to himself: My buddy is so tall, why is he always regarded as Japanese!

"Excuse me, would you rather use dollars or pounds?" The waiter hurriedly daoqian, he was sharp-eyed, and he could see the green ticket in Zhongshi's wallet at a glance.

"Does it make any difference?" Zhong Shi froze again, and the hand that had just pulled out half a dollar retracted again, and asked with interest.

"The difference will not be very big, the main thing is that we provide real-time exchange rate services to all shijie customers here, which is convenient for every customer." The waiter was still polite, and he was not at all dissatisfied with Zhong Shi's excessive questions, but his next answer made Zhong Shi stunned for a long time. "My personal advice, you still pay dollars."

"How do you know that the pound is going to depreciate?" After being stunned for a long time, Zhong Shi cautiously tentatively asked. Then he took out a hundred-dollar bill from his wallet and gently placed it on the table, staring involuntarily at "Franklin".

"Although the store is small, it also knows how to avoid foreign exchange risks, although this amount of money is not much, but it still pursues the principle of maximizing profits in operation." The waiter was even more astonishing.

"......" Zhong Shi was speechless for a long time, and then handed the banknote to the waiter, completely convinced, "Xiexie, your thoughtful service, the rest is a tip." ”

"Haha, Johnson, don't show it off, no one here knows that you used to do foreign exchange!" Just as Bell Stone and Andrew were about to get up, a thirty-year-old white man walked behind them, holding a glass of whiskey in his hand, listening to their conversation with relish.

Zhong Shi and Andrew were stunned for a moment, and then they understood what was going on. The two couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly, this is really a financial city, and even the owner of a bar is a former practitioner with a professional financial background.

"William, you're here." Johnson said hello, smiled apologetically at the bells, and moved on to the other table.

"Sir, can I take a look at your card?" The man named William was out of sight, holding a wine glass and pleading with Bell Stone. "Please forgive me for my presumptuousness, but just now I accidentally saw the card in your wallet, which is very similar to the VIP card of a private bank, I wonder if you can lend me a look?"

"You mean this card?" Zhong Shi took out a card from his wallet, which HSBC specially handled for him when he was handling the family fund. He deposited $100 million in HSBC, which alarmed their private banking department, and after repeated pleas from the manager, Zhong Shi agreed to let them take care of the funds, so he opened the private banking card.

It's a pity that the kind of Huitong black card that can make any request anywhere in the world has not yet appeared, otherwise with Zhong Shi's current net worth, he will definitely get such a one.

However, with the current HSBC VIP card, Zhongshi has also gained a lot of business convenience. For example, you can use a lounge at the airport to wait for your flight, you can board the plane before other customers, or you can buy shares on the primary market in the case of certain IPOs.

"You're ......"

The man named William took the card and looked at it carefully for a long time, and the expression on his face changed from confusion at the beginning to solemnity. After a long time, he asked cautiously, his voice trembling a little.

"Is there anything special about this card?" Andrew on the side was also a little surprised, he hadn't seen Bell Stone use this card a few times. In his opinion, this is an ordinary debit card, at most it has a golden VIP logo on it.

"This card requires more than one million dollars in fixed assets, as well as a certain amount of annual consumption, at least I can't afford it!" William smiled wryly and handed the card back to Bell Stone. However, when he saw the indifferent expressions of Zhong Shi and Andrew, the smile on his face became even more bitter.

These financial people only earn tens of thousands of dollars a year, compared to those high-ranking bigwigs, they are equivalent to ordinary migrant workers in later generations, although compared to ordinary office workers, it is more than enough, but in the eyes of these people, this money is nothing at all.

"Do you also do foreign exchange?" Zhong Shi put away the card, and suddenly didn't want to leave, he was a little interested in this uninvited William.

"No, I'm in copper futures." William put down his glass, stretched out his right hand, and formally introduced himself.

Coming from the Polish Copper Group, one of the world's largest suppliers of copper, William has a staggering number of long-term positions on the London Metal Exchange for hedging purposes.

"Do you know Mr. Hammer?" As soon as William sat down, he couldn't wait to ask.

"Mr. Hammer?"

Zhong Shi and Andrew glanced at each other, and both saw each other's doubts. They shook their heads in unison, indicating that they didn't know who Mr. Hammer was.

"Oh, sorry, forget you're not in the business. Mr. Hammer is Mr. Yasuo Hamanaka, a trader in the London copper market. ”

Yasuo Hamanaka is a trader from Sumitomo Copper in Japan. Japan's Sumitomo Copper is the largest copper supplier on Shijie, so they are the biggest bulls on the London Metal Exchange.

Yasuo Hamanaka, the chief metals trader of Sumitomo Copper in London, leads the Sumitomo Corporation's Nonferrous Financial Trading Department, which controls 5% of the global copper trading volume, and it is even rumored that his amount of money can single-handedly control the price of copper futures contracts.

For such an industry leader, all the traders of copper suppliers hope to have a relationship with him, so as to find out the operation strategy of Yasuo Hamanaka, and then make money together.

Regarded as Japanese again, Jongishi was completely speechless. What he never expected was that the name of the Japanese was so big in the City of London, and even anyone he met knew the name of the Japanese.

Due to the appreciation of the currency in recent years, Japanese conglomerates began to make large-scale asset acquisitions overseas, in addition to the acquisition of natural resources, Japanese capital also began to appear frequently in Shijie's major financial exchanges, among which there were leaders such as Yasuo Hamanaka.

Zhongshi and Andrew overestimated the influence of the Japanese, in fact, in the financial market, there are a wide variety of metal trading products, such as gold, silver, copper, tin, aluminum, lead, zinc, etc., each with its own market, different markets have different traders, Hamanaka Yasuo only plays an important role in one of the larger share of the market.

Like Yasuo Hamanaka, for a smaller character like William, is an unattainable figure.

Seeing that Zhong Shi and Andrew didn't know Yasuo Hamanaka, William said a few more polite words, and then went to look for the next target with a wine glass.

For William's behavior, both of them were a little speechless. In fact, for those who work in finance, every potential opportunity can mean the formation of a big deal, even if it is a small break during the lunch break. Therefore, they will not miss every opportunity to make friends with their peers.

In this industry, hedge funds are at the top of the food chain, followed by international investment banks, then those professional providers with strong funds, then some capital in the form of funds, and zuihou are those small customers with their own funds.

Like Zhong Shi, who made a fortune with his own funds, is not without precedent in history, and he is not a zuihou one. In this ever-changing market, the myth of getting rich overnight is frequently staged.

As Bell Stone and Andrew left the bar, British Prime Minister John Major made a public speech on the TV screen, and standing next to him was the dignified British Chancellor of the Exchequer Lamont.

"We believe and insist that the existing interest rate policy and exchange rate policy are reasonable, which will have a very positive effect on the UK's economic situation. Once again, I state that the current UK Government is willing and able to keep the pound in the European exchange rate system. ”

On television, Prime Minister John Major, who looks like a scholar and wears a pair of big, wide-rimmed glasses, said it in no uncertain terms. (Thank you brothers for being so powerful, Sanjiang ranking soon took a step forward, I hope the brothers can make persistent efforts, and I also work hard to code words for everyone to see.) ）

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