American Fortune Life

Barclays Bank has over 300 years of history and has always considered itself a senior in the industry. In addition, it was the first British bank to embrace the expansionary Wall Street culture and set up its own investment bank.

Even with the financial turmoil raging the globe and the world's banking sector plunged into a credit crisis, Barclays did not hesitate to seek government funding to make the government a major shareholder in the bank, preferring to opt for du standi shareholders and institutions and to stop the government from interfering with the board of directors of the bank.

In April of this year, Barclays received £5.8 billion in investment from DONG investors, backed by investment finance brokers, and Barclays paid 12 percent of its shares.

With the stock index plummeting by more than 70%, and the £5.8 billion currently left to spend, Monday's board of directors decided to systematically raise more money from the Middle-Dong desert hawks, but the measure would dilute the equity of existing investors and make them pay higher costs.

However, in the face of intermediary slaughter, refinancing may incur a total of £230 million in expenses and expenses to cover rebates to desert wealthy investors and their consultancy assistance to ensure the conduct of the financing business.

Even more headaches for Barclays' management were how to quench the anger of the clustered shareholders, who were deeply dissatisfied with the advantages the bank would offer to those desert highly-robbed investors.

For these towers, the entire team wants to benefit the desert hawks, and Barclays Bank really can't help but bite their teeth, but it must also explore ways to survive the current credit crisis.

I can't help it. That's the way it is. Cash is king.

“ I don't know. Is your bank happy to welcome my investment? ”

Andy's voice dropped and the entire conference room became extremely quiet, with everyone breathing clearly in the room.

At this moment, Andy Smith's sunny smile became so dazzling to everyone at Barclays Bank that they could gaze at each other and feel a chill.

Robert Raymond, president of Barclays Bank, blushed and his face twitched uncontrollably for a while. Even an idiot, he now figured out the poisonous tactics of a young man with a harmless smile on his face.

The Lehman Brothers invest $800 million in banking, £300 million in new stadiums, plus £1 billion now.

The young man in front of him has taken nearly £1.9 billion in cash from Barclays Bank...

Thinking about it, Robert couldn't help but squeeze his pupils, beat a cold cicada, stared sharply and kept smiling at Andy Smith, and if his guess was true, that is, the bastard in front of him, had been laying out against Barclays since the Lehmans broke down!

No wonder the good things about the new stadium loans fell on Barclays, wanting to come to Barclays and have the shadow of this‘ genius' behind the constant repression of stock prices.

Robert looked at Andy Smith, who was equally stunned, and his reddish face squeezed out a smile that looked worse than crying, breathing deeply under his inner frustration, and his voice became a bit of a dry smile: "Oh, I have to admire Mr. Smith's brilliance! ”

The silence in the conference room was finally broken, and the eyes of all focused on Andy's face, with a slight smile on his right eyebrow, an 18-carat platinum set with 996 diamonds and 92 ruby stones and a Euro200,000 princess Rainier III Limited Edition fountain pen spinning on his thumb.

Several others focused their attention on the spinning fountain pen and seemed to be worried about the fountain pen spinning out.

“Bang!”

Andy grabbed the spinning fountain pen in his hand and put it up on the conference table, revealing a big white tooth. “What, Mr. Raymond doesn't welcome my investment? You know, I don't have an intermediary to make the difference! I don't even need a rebate! My advisors don't even need you to bribe them! ”

Andy smiled and opened his arms to show his men sitting on both sides, "I'm sending you money myself because I look after you! ”

“Hoo--”

Robert Raymond's left fist beneath the table clasped tightly, no bloody blues burst, some uncontrolled slight tremors on his body, breathing deeply again, and his grinning voice: “So how much is Mr. Smith going to invest? ”

“Based on today's share price, I lost a little, 1.4 billion pounds, 10 percent of the shares, a board seat.” Andy grinned softly as he played with the pen in his hand.

“Oh...” Raymond's laughter was a little dull, and Roux's smiling face turned red. At this moment, he confirmed his speculation. The bastard in front of him was counting them from the beginning, except that the 300 million loan was a special fund for the stadium, and the 1.4 billion pounds, all the money the other side had just cut off from them.

“I'm sorry, Mr. Smith, but I can't decide this on my own, I need to hold a board of directors... ”

“That's unfortunate, I have to fly Di Bye tomorrow and be invited to the opening ceremony of a hotel, there's no way...” Andy shook his head somewhat helplessly and went on to say, "I'll be back in the States later, so I'm running out of time, and I'll wait here a little while if I can, and I'm sure the board members will vote in favour if your bank wants me to invest, maybe my joining will rebound Barclays Bank's share price, maybe! What do you think of that? ”

Robert Raymond's expression was changing and he looked at Andy Smith with a bland smile, and he knew that he was eating them and that Andy Smith's means were pointless, after all, normal commercial loans and would pay interest to Barclays Bank.

From the signing of the contract, when the funds arrive, the £1 billion belongs to Andy Smith, who can spend whatever he wants!

“Well, if you'll excuse me for a moment, Mr. Smith, if there's anything you need to tell them directly...” Raymond finally shook his head with a bitter smile and stood up and Andy shook his hand. No matter how unhappy he was, he had to inform shareholders that Barclays Bank's stock could no longer be seriously damaged, not only by investors, but more importantly by negotiations with the desert hawks.

In the conference room, Andy leaned back on the chair to taste the coffee and glanced at Amahl staring at him with a big pair of eyes. “Isn't it handsome? ”

“Oh, yeah, really handsome!” Amahl had an elegant smile, but the slight redness on her cheek made her a delight.

Amahl was really staring at everything that was happening in front of her, turning her hands over the clouds and raining, and Andy Smith just so easily played with each other and her palms until Robert Raymond left, when she got out of the atmosphere that Andy Smith had created.

“Everybody says so.” Andy picked her eyebrows and smiled softly.

“Oh...” The crowd couldn't help but smile and Amahl seemed to realize something. Her cheeks flashed red and her glance at Andy flickered brightly. For this charming young boss, there was also a slight flash in her heart.

The starry star beside him looked at the devil's little assistant with a worship eye and saw the devil's attitude towards Amahl. He couldn't help but skip his mouth and take a deep breath in his heart, Bichi.

Barclays' board resolution didn't keep Andy waiting long, and half an hour later, the conference room door was pushed open, with high-ranking and serious insights such as group president Raymond, CEO Wally, personal banking head Siggles, and finance head Lucas.

Under Raymond's introduction, Andy and Barclays Bank's diverse executives shook hands and once again sat relatively apart, Raymond's smile became natural, first of all saying: “The board has just made a voting resolution in favor of Mr. Smith's investment intentions, so we can start talking! ”

“Oh, wise choice...” Andy stopped regressing his strength at this point and said softly, twitching the corners of the Barclays in the conference room.

Andy knows a lot of people must be deeply dissatisfied with his behavior, but he also understands that this group of investors will vote in favor, because reason will overcome their perception of the xing and exploring ways to survive the current credit crisis in the banking industry is the key, the name Andy Smith is enough to rebound Barclays Bank's stock prices!