Rebirth

"Yes, it's the Royal Bank of Scotland!" Hearing Li Feng's surprised response, Jamie Dimon looked at his boss a little strangely and replied affirmatively.

It’s no wonder that Li Feng would be surprised. Royal Bank of Scotland, it is a super financial giant that has been ranked in the top 10 in the world for a long time. Li Feng really hasn’t thought about anything to do with Royal Bank of Scotland. Looking at it, Royal Bank of Scotland is undoubtedly a financial giant.

Although Li Feng's own strength is indeed tyrannical now, the difficulty of wanting to meet such a world-class super giant can be imagined, and the greater probability is that he will break his head.

For example, now let Li Feng gather all his power to touch giants such as Citibank, *****, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, etc. The result must be no good results. The potential influence of these giants is too great. No wonder Li Feng wants Surprised.

In fact, here, Li Feng was influenced by the famous Royal Bank of Scotland.

In fact, before 2000, the Royal Bank of Scotland was not the super banking giant of later generations. Today, the Royal Bank of Scotland is just a regional bank. It is still strong in Scotland and the United Kingdom, but in the global banking industry, it is only It is outside the top 200 of global banks.

In other words, in the future, the top 10 or even top 5 super giants in the world have not really made their mark. They are now just a small bank. Because of this, as the trust leader of an international financial giant like CSCB-Jamie Dimon looked at Li Feng strangely.

After all, the Royal Bank of Scotland is now a small bank, and Li Feng is the head of CSCB and the Century Consortium behind the scenes. In Jamie Dimon’s view, did he say that he wanted to acquire the Royal Bank of Scotland surprised Li Feng, as if There is no need.

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"I seem to remember that the Royal Bank of Scotland is very powerful. Did they have problems with their operations?" Li Feng asked curiously.

"BOSS, where did you hear that the Royal Bank of Scotland is powerful? Although it is indeed in a leading position in Scotland, even if it has a certain influence in the United Kingdom, it is nothing more than that. Out of Scotland or the United Kingdom, who knows the Royal Bank of Scotland? Ah!" Jamie Dimon responded with a curious and surprised tone again.

"Uh…"

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There is no doubt that Li Feng's heart was shaken by Jamie Dimon's words, and he finally understood where he was wrong. This was misled by the inertial thinking of later generations.

The later Royal Bank of Scotland is indeed powerful, and it is a global financial giant comparable to giants such as Citi, Wells Fargo and ****. However, who knows how the Royal Bank of Scotland looks like today? After all, it was 20 years ago. .

Thinking of this, Li Feng suddenly became interested, and temporarily gave up understanding the situation of the three newly acquired banks, and asked Jamie Dimon to elaborate on the Royal Bank of Scotland.

"That line, BOSS, speaking of it, this will start from last year. Last year, two banks in Scotland were interested in the large domestic bank in the United Kingdom, the National Westminster Bank, but the National Westminster Banking Group was a single company. A large bank with total assets of over 200 billion pounds, total capital of nearly 12 billion pounds, and annual profits of nearly 1 billion pounds.

Last year, the two Scottish banks, the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland, originally planned to acquire jointly. If they were acquired, the benefits would be great for the two banks in Scotland. They could leap out of Scotland and England and move towards the world. .

However, the size of the National Bank of Westminster is at least three times the size of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the size of the Bank of Scotland is four times or more. In other words, the combined size of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland is not as good as With the scale of National Westminster Abbey, it is not easy to complete such a "snake swallowing elephant" plan.

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No, the two banks originally wanted to jointly acquire, but the final plan was aborted. Naturally, there was the problem of intrigue after the two banks were combined, but the huge size of the National Westminster Abbey was also an important reason.

Now that the Bank of Scotland has withdrawn from the acquisition plan, I found that the Royal Bank of Scotland did not give up, or showed interest in the National Westminster Bank, and after studying the general situation of the Royal Bank of Scotland, I found this The bank’s business philosophy is roughly the same as our CSCB philosophy and coincides with each other. Therefore, I was very interested in Royal Bank of Scotland before and collected some information specially."

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Hearing this, Li Feng should have a rough guess about the future development of Royal Bank of Scotland.

Obviously, the glorious Royal Bank of Scotland in the previous life should have moved from a local regional bank to a world-class bank through the acquisition of the National Westminster Bank and the completion of the "Snake Tunxiang" plan. After all, the National Westminster Bank itself is An international super banking group headquartered in London and operating in more than 30 countries around the world.

"What you mean is that if the Royal Bank of Scotland wants to acquire the National Bank of Westminster, it needs to raise funds, but I think based on the influence of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Scotland, obviously, the Scottish government will fully support it. We can Let's step in, let's talk about it, how much rights can we get after we step in?" Li Feng asked back, frowning after thinking about it.

At this time, Li Feng also roughly understood what Jamie Dimon meant.

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Obviously, it is almost impossible to acquire Royal Bank of Scotland wholly-owned. The only possibility is to take advantage of Royal Bank of Scotland’s current lack of funds and take advantage of the strong strength of CSCB to buy a stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and become a major bank. Shareholders, perhaps this is just an investment opportunity. Obviously, Jamie Dimon is optimistic about their development.

"BOSS, although the Royal Bank of Scotland does have a huge influence in Scotland, the bank shareholders are not only government departments, but also a large number of individual shareholders, and consortia families in Scotland and the United Kingdom. Most of these rich families are not willing to let the bank To become a real state-owned bank, besides, the country's money is not so easy to get." Jamie Dimon replied with a smile.

"Well, this is also true. After all, after taking the state's money, if the state is completely occupied as a major shareholder, the bank will no longer be private or private, but will be completely state-owned. Besides, this is also It is contrary to the current financial policies in England and other places. After all, the original state-owned countries in England and Europe are all being privatized." Li Feng came over now and replied with a smile.

"That is, in Western countries, the relationship between consortia and the government has always been mutually antagonistic and mutually supportive. The government's willingness to suppress the power of the consortium has always been, otherwise there will be no anti-monopoly law and other prerequisites. It's legal." Jamie Dimon responded jokingly again.

"In other words, this is our opportunity to invest in Royal Bank of Scotland?"

"I am personally optimistic about this investment. Moreover, Royal Bank of Scotland has huge influence and network resources in Scotland and the UK. This will help our new bank to gain a foothold in the UK and even European financial circles."

"BOSS, I also think this is an opportunity." Wu Jianmin also interjected with a smile at this time.

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"Well, one of you is the chairman and CEO of the bank's board of directors, and the other is the president and vice-chairman of the bank. Since both of you think it's good, then you can try it first."

Thinking of the super performance of the Royal Bank of Scotland in the future, this is really an exciting proposal. Jamie Dimon deserves to be known as the "super banker". He really has an extraordinary vision. Naturally, Li Feng's heart is ten thousand. I was willing, but after pretending to hesitate on purpose, he gave a positive answer to the two of them.

"OK, BOSS, don't worry, we will handle it!"

"That's it, you go to collect information first, and leave the recent banking documents. I will take a good look and learn about the situation of the St. Paul Bank and the two new British banks. Then we will gather together."

"OK, we will leave the BOSS first and wait for your notice."

"Okay, goodbye!"

"Bye!"

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