With the leadership of Song Yaqiao, a person who is very familiar with Shanghai, Lai Xiaohu's work efficiency has been greatly improved, and in just one day, the two of them basically looked at all the places that Song Yaqiao said the night before. And it happens that today is still Sunday, basically every week today is the most prosperous time for the entire Shanghai business activities, so today to observe those places can also best see the prosperity of a location.

After inspecting a few places mentioned by Song Yaqiao, the two of them also drove around the center of Shanghai, and when they turned, the two of them determined some places that could be used as the address for the new store, and then at the end of the day, after the layers of screening by the two people, four spare locations were left.

These four locations are left after being screened by two people, as a common denominator, these four communities are not only in the city center, but also very prosperous areas, and what is even more commendable is that there are many high-end residential areas near these places. These places all meet Lai Xiaohu's address requirements for the new store, but in the end, only one new store can be selected, so after a day of screening, only one of the four can be left behind.

As the next step of screening, what needs to be examined is no longer the passenger flow information of the four places, but will pay more attention to the overall development potential of the regions to which the four places belong, the preferential policies given by the local administrative departments, and of course, the various expenses caused by the purchase of these four places and the decoration before the opening in the future......

After comprehensively examining these follow-up factors, Lai Xiaohu will choose the most suitable place for the first branch in Shanghai among these four places.

However, this follow-up screening task was handed over to Song Yaqiao, who was still in Shanghai, and Lai Xiaohu had to fly to the United States again.

This time, Lai Xiaohu did not go to Los Angeles, but went directly to New York, because this time Lai Xiaohu's mission in the United States was to attend the opening ceremony of his bank.

After such a long period of preparation, East West Union Bank finally opened under Lai Xiaohu's great expectations. Although the future speed of making money of this bank may not be as fast as that of Lai Xiaohu's Huamei Group and other companies, Lai Xiaohu is indeed still very much looking forward to this bank, and even looks extremely important to this bank.

As a super-rich person in the future, one thing Lai Xiaohu has to consider is the security of his future wealth. Of course, Lai Xiaohu's security is not the investment risk and other issues, but whether his own assets will disappear out of thin air or be embezzled by others due to some abnormal factors.

You have to guard against this, and when you're just a billionaire, you probably don't need to think about it, because people who have the power to make your money disappear quietly won't focus on a billionaire. But when your assets reach hundreds of billions of dollars, or even hundreds of billions of dollars, you have to think a little about the safety of your funds.

In the Western world, banks have always been uninsured. Because no bank cannot fail here, and economic development is also uncertain, even those with a very large and very long history may one day quietly go bankrupt.

At that time, with the bankruptcy of the bank, all the money he stored in the bank will be finished, so Lai Xiaohu doesn't want the tens of billions of dollars he saved in a bank to suddenly disappear all at once, and you don't have the strength to resist at all.

It's not impossible for this kind of thing to happen. Just like the European debt crisis that Lai Xiaohu experienced in his previous life, in this crisis, he remembers that a European country launched a plan directly after the large-scale bankruptcy of domestic banks. After the country launched a bailout plan for the banking industry. The bankrupt banks are combined into a single bank, and depositors who had previously deposited in the bankrupt banks can withdraw their money from the united bank. But at the end of these regulations, there is another regulation, that is, if the depositor deposits more than a certain amount, the money stored in it cannot be withdrawn, and the money will be used as the operation of the new bank itself. And not only is it free to use, but even whether it can be taken out in the future is still two words.

An individual is always weak in the face of a country, so after a country's government has introduced a certain measure, as a large depositor, there is no power to resist.

Both in the Western world and in China. Keeping your money in someone else's bank is risky, and the more money you have, the more risk you take.

For Lai Xiaohu, taking his own destiny into his own hands is the most important thing, and the first step to control his own destiny is naturally to have a bank that he can completely control. In this way, his money is in his own hands, and there is no way for others to directly take Lai Xiaohu's assets for themselves.

Lai Xiaohu's attention to this bank also made him directly put down his business in Shanghai and dare to come to New York when the bank was about to open.

The day before the opening, Donald had made all the preparations, all aspects of the work of East West Bank had been done, and there would be a sufficient number of guests at the opening of the new headquarters of East West Bank tomorrow.

Speaking of the current headquarters of East West Bank, it is also expensive, and when East West Bank did not have a shadow, and even in the minds of the two people, Donald had already begun to prepare to build a new headquarters for the two people's bank.

As a large bank with assets of hundreds of billions in the future, you can't always work in other people's office buildings.

The headquarters of East West Bank is not a building with tens or hundreds of meters tall, but a building with only nine floors. In New York, the most cosmopolitan megacity, a nine-story building was out of the question.

But don't think that just because the headquarters of East West Bank is not tall enough, this building is only nine floors, but its comprehensive cost is as high as 500 million, and it is still a dollar. From this, you can imagine how the gold content of the whole building is.

The location of this headquarters alone is a piece of land with a lot of money, in order not to let itself out of the mainstream circle of the banking world. When building the headquarters, Donald struggled to find a piece of land for himself on Wall Street. Needless to say, anyone can know what the price of a plot of land will be on Wall Street. This place is definitely one of the most expensive plots of land in the world.

And buying a small piece of land on Wall Street to build a headquarters is a huge expense for this land alone. In addition to the cost of the land, the headquarters of East West Bank is unique in design and materials.

Not only did the design of the most famous designer team in the United States design the entire building, but also the building materials were basically all selected luxury brands.

It can be said that this inconspicuous nine-storey building in the midst of high-rise New York is definitely a valuable work of art, yes, an absolute work of art. Simply classifying the building as a building does not reflect its value in itself.

When Lai Xiaohu arrived in New York, it was the day before the bank opened. At this time, Donald and Hope, the CEO of East American United Bank, had been busy in New York for several days, and Ivanka also arrived in New York by plane from Los Angeles in the morning of the same day, because Ivanka knew that Lai Xiaohu was coming, so she came to New York from Los Angeles early, and she was not interested in opening a store in any bank. Although she technically owns a small stake in the bank, her interest in the bank is noticeably less than her interest in her own jewellery company. It was Lai Xiaohu's factor that allowed her to put her jewelry company aside temporarily.

There is no shortage of high-end hotels on Wall Street, except for banks. After rolling the sheets for half a night in a hotel near the bank's headquarters. Lai Xiaohu hugged Ivanka and entered the dream.

In his sleep, Lai Xiaohu dreamed that he would become the richest person in the world in the future, and not only the richest person in the future, but also the richest person in the world in history, and his Huamei Union Bank also became the largest bank in the world, with the passage of time. One bank after another began to fail, both small and large. And those banks with a long history. Finally, after 100 years, East West Bank is actually the oldest bank.

After waking up, Lai Xiaohu wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and woke up Ivanka very unsatisfactorily. The morning is the most important opening ceremony, so the two of them have to get up early to prepare, and even dress, they have to dress up specially today.

Donald has already arranged everything, but there is no need for two people to do these things anymore, when to do what to do, the two of them need to obey Donald's arrangement.

According to Donald's instructions, Lai Xiaohu and Ivanka had to greet the guests who came to attend the opening ceremony on Donald's behalf when he was too busy.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the opening ceremony of East West Bank officially began, as a bank with strong financial strength, the opening of East West Bank is destined to attract a lot of attention from the media, especially those news organizations that focus on financial and economic aspects, and look at East West Union Bank as a focus of their work.

In the flash of many reporters, Hope, as the CEO of the bank, served as the host of the opening of the store. It's not that Donald specified this at random, but Hope does have the ability.

Although Hope is not a professional host, a professional host may not be able to compare with Hope. Although Hope does not have the professional ability of those professional hosts, Hope also has the ability to mobilize the atmosphere that most professional hosts do not have.

That's what Donald values the most, Hope's speech is very incendiary, and he has a unique way of mobilizing the atmosphere of the event. So it's a fitting arrangement to have Hope, who has a unique ability in this area, to act as the moderator.

Not to mention, Hope did not do a good job at all, and after only a few words were spoken, the atmosphere of the scene began to be driven by Hope.

Then Donald went up to speak as the chairman of the bank, and after Donald spoke, Hope officially announced the establishment of East West Bank.

At this time, the flashing lights were shining again. As a future destined to ride the wind and waves, East West Union Bank began its first day of business today, witnessed by many news organizations.

In addition to Donald and Hope, Lai Xiaohu, who is the boss of Huamei Group, the head office of Huamei United Bank, also went up to make a brief speech, and Lai Xiaohu, who didn't want to be too concerned by these reporters, deliberately shortened the time for himself to go up. But even so, when Lai Xiaohu went up, it still caused a lot of exclamations at the scene, especially those reporters, who flocked to Lai Xiaohu desperately like a pervert seeing a beautiful woman after seeing Lai Xiaohu.

Even if Lai Xiaohu doesn't want to be the center of attention, he is destined to make headlines in many newspapers or TV stations tomorrow. Because Lai Xiaohu has too much news value that can be developed.

Lai Xiaohu's Chinese identity, Lai Xiaohu's young age in his early twenties, the development momentum of Huamei Group's United States, and the story of Lai Xiaohu's self-made business can all be used as hype material. So if you let Lai Xiaohu go, these reporters will really be incompetent.

But Lai Xiaohu doesn't care anymore. Anyway, after attending the opening of the store today. He will fly directly back to China tonight, and no matter how much news reports Lai Xiaohu has been reported in New York and the United States, he will not be able to see it.

After Lai Xiaohu, many people have expressed their sincere wishes for the opening of East West Bank, such as the Wall Street bigwigs that Lai Xiaohu saw before and after the last time he came to New York. And this time, there are also a lot of official figures from New York and Washington.

As a new bank, East West Bank was already strong on day one, both financially and online. Or between the U.S. government.

At the same time, it is not the headquarters of East West Bank that opened today, and hundreds of branches of East West Bank throughout North America have also officially opened today.

Although East West Bank is only opening for the first day today, that doesn't stop it from having hundreds of branches on its first day.

This is of course thanks to the acquisition of FGC Bank. Just as Donald valued FGC Bank, although the bank was already in a quagmire, there is one area that no other bank of the same size can match, and that is the hundreds of branches that FGC Bank has opened throughout North America. This is the greatest asset of FGC Bank.

After acquiring FGC Bank, Donald and Hope have been working hard to transfer FGC Bank's business to East West American Bank.

Especially for these hundreds of business outlets, it is the top priority of the work, in the first few days after the acquisition, these business outlets were still open normally, but a week before the opening, these business outlets were all required by the company's headquarters to temporarily suspend business.

Then this week's time is the time for these hundreds of business outlets to collectively renovate, new people and new companies. Now that a new company has been established, it is natural that it will not be the same as before, so the redecoration of these business outlets is inevitable. And some of the store names have to be changed.

The day before the opening, these hundreds of business outlets were actually ready to reopen, whether in terms of hardware, software, or staffing, hundreds of business outlets were all ready.

Today, at the same time as the headquarters of East West Bank opens, hundreds of branches throughout North America are actually carrying out their own opening ceremonies.

It's just that they have to watch the opening of the company's headquarters on the Internet before they can open their doors.

After reading this, they can start their own opening ceremony. By 11 o'clock, Huamei United Bank, which includes hundreds of business outlets, was officially launched in all parts of North America.

Hope and Donald have different views on the future development of the bank, Hope still has his own consistent style, and likes to take an unusual path in development, and those risky but profitable development directions are often what Hope values. This time, the development proposed by Hope is to continue to increase investment, and then continue to do the development model of the previous FGC bank.

In the past, the reason why FGC Bank was able to make large-scale profits was actually the financial derivatives business, but FGC Bank was in trouble because of this financial derivatives. So for Hope's development path, Donald thinks he is strongly opposed.

Donald's personality tends to be stable and conservative, so Donald's advice is to take a conservative approach, starting with only the bank's own business, and then changing his approach after paying off the bad debts left by FGC Bank. (To be continued......)