The richest man

Chapter 171 Standard Chartered Bank! ! !

The popularity of Walkman and the new album has earned Zhang Jun a lot of money.

Investing in the establishment of China News Agency is just one of the next projects.

By 1976, Hong Kong's economy was booming.

The real estate industry is developing rapidly.

Zhang Jun had previously purchased a large amount of land, and also acquired Hutchison Whampoa, Wharf and Hong Kong Land.

No one in Hong Kong has more land reserves than Zhang Jun.

Right now, a large amount of land is still idle.

Zhang Jun plans to develop all of them. In the future, just collecting rent every year will cost tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars...

To raise funds, although Zhang Jun has a lot of funds, he is still unable to do so.

Should I borrow money from the bank, I still have to borrow it.

However, wouldn't it be cool if this bank was still its own bank?
Banks make money equal to their own money.

At the same time, the land can be developed rapidly, realizing rapid wealth appreciation!
This is really cool!

Kirin Securities.

Zhang Jun looked at Zhao Wen and asked, "How many shares of Standard Chartered Bank have you bought?"

Zhao Wen replied with a smile: "The secret holdings add up to about 37.1%. In addition, we are still in contact with several small shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank and are buying their shares. If there is no accident, after a week, the holding The number will increase to 45%.”

Standard Chartered Bank's shareholding is dispersed, and the second largest shareholder has less than 10% of the shares.

Although Standard Chartered Bank is also a note-issuing bank in Hong Kong, it is not comparable to HSBC. Even in 1986, Lloyds Bank of the United Kingdom intended to acquire Standard Chartered Bank, but it was finally rescued by Pao Yugang and Qiu Depu.

However, Standard Chartered Bank has many branches throughout Europe, Argentina, Canada, Panama, Nepal and the United States. It is a large international bank.

Zhang Jun has been coveting Standard Chartered Bank for a long time, and he is very happy to see that he will take over the bank soon.

"Standard Chartered Bank should have noticed our move! We have already acquired so many shares, there is no guarantee that Standard Chartered Bank will not find out..."

Zhao Wen nodded: "Yes, the management of Standard Chartered Bank has found out that we are buying shares, but they have nothing to do. The economic crisis has just passed, and everyone is licking their wounds. There is no money to support Standard Chartered Bank. There are also concerns that we are actually The Internet has already secretly controlled Standard Chartered Bank, and if you participate at this time, you may be hit hard. Hehe, in fact, it is true, 37% of the shares are enough to control Standard Chartered Bank..."

"In addition, Standard Chartered Bank is not hostile to our acquisition. The reason is that you are so powerful, the boss, and they also hope that Standard Chartered Bank can be bundled with you to achieve rapid development!" Speaking of this, Zhao Wen thought a little bit. Laughing, the acquirer is so awesome, it is really rare for the acquired party to open the door to welcome customers.

"But boss, the stock price of Standard Chartered Bank has risen so much recently, I don't think it is necessary to buy shares from the stock market anymore!"

"After you take control of Standard Chartered Bank, you can invest more in the bank, and you can use this method to increase your own shares." Zhao Wendao, the stock price of Standard Chartered Bank was originally low, so you can absorb it from the stock market at a low price, so as to earn some money and save money. Funding, but apparently not now.

Hearing this, Zhang Jun nodded and said, "Well, let's do what you said. After the acquisition of the shares of those minority shareholders, it will be officially announced to the public that it will become the owner of Standard Chartered!!!"

"Ok!"

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Time flies, and a week has passed.

Kirin Securities claims to hold a 45% stake in Standard Chartered Bank.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in Hong Kong.

The share price of Standard Chartered Bank soared immediately!
Meanwhile, shares in HSBC and other listed banks fell.

"Hurry up and buy the shares of Standard Chartered Bank. Zhang Jun joined Standard Chartered Bank. The deposits alone have billions of Hong Kong dollars and 20 billion US dollars!!! Standard Chartered Bank is about to take off, surpassing HSBC is just around the corner!"

"That's right, what is HSBC? If you look at Zhang Jun's property, the profit is more than ten times that of HSBC. He earns hundreds of millions of dollars for writing a book, and several dollars for releasing an album." 5 million US dollars, and more peripheral income... Some time ago, Zhang Jun also invested [-] million US dollars in Hong Kong Daily Group. It is really rich, and now that it is in Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Chartered Bank will definitely expand! I am an expert. Believe me, just buy the shares of Standard Chartered Bank, and you will definitely make a steady profit!!!”

"I still need you, a bullshit expert, to analyze this, and I know everything!"

"..."

The exchange was buzzing for a while.

At this time, Zhang Jun had arrived at the office building of the Hong Kong headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank. The company held a board meeting, and Zhang Jun became the chairman of the board of directors with an undisputed advantage.

Then Zhang Jun announced an additional investment of US$10 billion in Standard Chartered Bank, which will be used to expand the company's scale, establish more branches, or directly acquire other banks, not limited to Hong Kong.

Zhang Jun's shares also increased to 81.2%.

In the afternoon, Standard Chartered Bank held a press conference to announce the company's decision.

The media reporters were shocked.

At this moment, everyone has a doubt in their hearts, how much money does Zhang Jun have?

The main industries under the name of Zhang Jun are Legendary Technology, Legendary Film Company, Legendary Comics, DreamWorks, Legendary Toys, Hong Kong Daily Group, Universal Music Company, Phoenix TV, Chinese Land, Hutchison Whampoa, Wharf, Hong Kong Land...

Legend Technology makes the most money every year, especially the "Lingxiao" game substrate, which almost monopolizes the arcade machine industry. In addition, electronic pet machines are popular all over the world. Last year, it made a profit of 42 billion U.S. dollars. This year, due to the popularity of the Walkman, Legend Technology made a profit of 30 billion in the first half of the year. Dollar.

These data must not be known to the outside world, and the establishment of an offshore company is also a legitimate method of tax avoidance, making it even more difficult for the outside world to know the profitability of Legendary Technology Corporation...

The income of Legendary Films is also amazing. It owns Legendary theaters in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, with a total of 680 five movie theaters.Thanks to the box office hits of "Jaws" and "King Kong," plus peripheral profits, Legendary Films made a whopping $14 billion in profits last year!
Legendary Comics has a distribution network and branches throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. Marvel is also one of its subsidiaries. However, compared with other industries, the profit of comics is not too high. Last year, the profit was only about 8 million U.S. dollars. The profits from the copyright of comics are the most important, such as Transformers, Dragon Ball, One Piece, Spiderman and other toys, Legendary Comics can get a share of the profit.

Legendary Toys is purely for hard-earned money. The super IP toys of major companies are handed over to Legendary Toys. Due to the large order volume, they are full, and their annual profit exceeds 5 million US dollars!
Hong Kong Daily Group is a large group integrating newspapers, magazines and publishing houses, and Penguin Press is one of its subsidiaries.The Hong Kong Daily Group has been expanding, not only did not make money for Zhang Jun, but also asked him to post money.

Dreamworks’ profits are not high, and they can’t make much money by developing cartoons. Many cartoons are distributed at low prices so that more TV stations are willing to broadcast these cartoons. The main income comes from toys, but ip Most of them belong to other companies, but fortunately, DreamWorks can get a little bit of profit from it.However, Zhang Jun has been posting money to encourage them to work hard to make original animations and make animated films.

Huanyu Music Company is very popular, relying on Zhang Jun's albums to earn a lot of money, signed a lot of artists under it, although the profit is very low for each one, but the number is still quite considerable.In the first half of the year, the profit exceeded 3 million US dollars.

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All in all, Zhang Jun is indeed rich as an enemy.

Now it is no problem for him to spend three to four billion US dollars at once.

After receiving Zhang Jun's investment, Standard Chartered Bank began to move quickly. While opening a branch in Hong Kong, it acquired banks around the world, mainly entering the US banking market, and Zhang Jun named it to acquire Wells Fargo Bank.

The name of Wells Fargo Bank is known to many people in later generations. In 2013, Wells Fargo Bank became the world's largest bank by market value for the first time, but it is still a regional community bank.

The reason why Zhang Jun wants to acquire Wells Fargo is mainly because of its potential.The business model of Wells Fargo is different from other banks. It respects retail banking, bases itself on community banking services, and pays attention to small and micro enterprise loans. This is the main reason for its rapid rise.

Even if Wells Fargo cannot become the bank with the highest market value in the world in this lifetime, as long as it sticks to its original business model, it can at least develop into a large US bank.

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After half a month.

Standard Chartered Bank began to fully cooperate with the company under the name of Zhang Jun.

Chinese Land Company has more than a dozen major projects approved, with an investment ranging from 5000 million Hong Kong dollars to as many as 20 billion Hong Kong dollars. The total project budget is as high as 800 billion Hong Kong dollars.Standard Chartered Bank will provide 600 billion loans.

Of course, the money is not taken out all at once, so there is not much pressure on Standard Chartered Bank.

At present, all the turnover of companies under Zhang Jun's name goes to Standard Chartered Bank, which is extremely rich in funds.

In order to please Zhang Jun, many partners also transferred the company's turnover to Standard Chartered Bank.

Think about it, Zhang Jun's business in Hong Kong is so big, and there are so many partners. If they gather together, the scale will be huge, which leads to the strong ability of Standard Chartered Bank to absorb reserves.

It is no exaggeration to say that since Zhang Jun joined Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Chartered Bank has gone up several steps.

"Boss, since you joined Standard Chartered Bank, the deposit absorption capacity of Standard Chartered Bank has increased dramatically, and the number of deposits has increased by 520 billion Hong Kong dollars in a short period of time! According to our survey, Hong Kong citizens think that you are rich, boss, even other banks It will go bankrupt, but Standard Chartered Bank will never go bankrupt, so they deposit their money in Standard Chartered Bank, thinking it is more reliable and safe!" The young female president of Standard Chartered Bank, Vivienne Hetty, said to Zhang Jun, with a smile on her face, It's rather charming.

Zhang Jun was taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled and said: "This is a good thing, it seems that we will surpass HSBC in a few years!"

With its own popularity and the expansion of the enterprise, HSBC will be surpassed sooner or later.

I will also become a big boss who truly dominates Hong Kong's economy!
Zhang Jun glanced at Vivienne Hetty. This female president is too young. She is 30 years old and has a beautiful appearance. She is 171cm tall and has a protruding front and back. She is dressed in professional attire and is mature and intellectual.

Looking down, it turned out to be black silk with long legs...

Zhang Jun resisted the impulse, looked away, secretly said, the beverage company under his name does not seem to have the product of Nutrition Express, so it needs to be developed~
"By the way, boss, there is good news from Wells Fargo Bank. The other party is willing to accept our acquisition and sell 51% of the shares!" Vivienne Hetty said softly.

Wells Fargo is currently only a regional community bank with a market capitalization of just over $2 million.

Zhang Jun invested 3.5 million US dollars and won 51% of their shares. The premium was huge, and many shareholders expressed their support.Moreover, Wells Fargo can also use Zhang Jun's reputation to expand the bank's scale.

It is not modest to say that Zhang Jun's influence far exceeds that of Buffett in later generations.

There is no Forbes rich list now, otherwise, Zhang Jun might become the richest man in the world.

Of course, this is just an individual. In terms of family wealth, Zhang Jun is far from being able to compare with those established families.

"Well, the company only needs to send out financial supervision, and the bank's management should not be moved. The core purpose of community banking services cannot be changed!" Zhang Jun nodded and said that he was not surprised to be able to win Wells Fargo.It's just a small bank, if you can't buy it, just keep throwing money at it.

Vivienne Hetty responded, "Okay."

If Zhang Jun hadn't paid special attention to this bank, Vivienne Hetty would only have set her sights on acquiring a bigger bank.

An hour later, Zhang Jun bid farewell to the sexy and alluring female bank president, and drove to Hutchison Whampoa Company.

ParknShop Supermarket and Wellcome Supermarket occupy more than 8% of the market share in Hong Kong, almost monopolizing the market.

Zhang Jun specially established a retail company - Alibaba, and merged ParknShop Supermarket and Wellcome Supermarket into it.

Uh, if Ma Yun knew, would he jump in anger?
Regardless of these, Zhang Juncai first seized the name of Alibaba and gained popularity. In the future, he can use Alibaba's reputation to get off to a smooth start and give users confidence in Internet e-commerce.

The most difficult thing for Internet e-commerce to start is that buyers are worried about the safety of shopping. If they know that this e-commerce company is very strong, then users will be more at ease.

Zhang Jun invested 10 billion US dollars in Alibaba for expansion. Taking advantage of the slow development of Wal-Mart and Carrefour, he took the lead in staking land around the world and opening supermarkets!
Zhang Jun discussed with Wayne Webb, President of Alibaba, for more than an hour, and determined that the 10 billion US dollars will be divided into 6 million US dollars to seize the European market and 4 million US dollars to seize the US market.

Japan is also a big country in the retail industry, but Zhang Jun has other plans.Japanese business is somewhat exclusive, Zhang Jun decided to focus on acquisitions, so he is not in a hurry.

Moreover, the company's reserve talent is not enough, blindly expanding rapidly, the final result may not be good.

After Wayne Webb left, a huge storm that no one expected began to blow in the retail industry...

(End of this chapter)