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   Chapter 534 Xiaohe only shows sharp corners

PayPal was able to acquire Rosperiti Bank at a low price, and Adrian contributed a lot in it. Normally, there are still three pounds of iron in the broken ship. No matter how unbearable Rosperiti Bank is, it is not more than 600 million US dollars. , can be taken down.

   Adrian's pressure was the last straw that broke the camel's back, forcing Rosperetti Bank to sell itself to PayPal.

   This is also the reason why Amerika Corporation likes to cooperate with parliamentarians. It is often the parliamentarians who shoot the guns and force the prey to sell themselves to big companies.

   Of course, the latter also needs to make a statement, invest campaign funds for these members, help them get votes, and so on.

  Song Yang naturally couldn't let Adrian go in vain. He wanted to give Adrian's family foundation a sum of money, and then invest a sum of money in his campaign office. This is the rule of the world.

  Greck's drinking became sober. After hearing Song Yang's words, he nodded and said, "I understand!"

Houston, Adrian is having a meal with his wife and daughter at home. How can I not mention Adrian's private life? At least on the surface, Adrian's image is upright, tough, daring to challenge gang crimes, etc. Wait.

   This is also the common image of the members of the American Congress. When they appear in front of the camera, they are often a big family, and they appear in front of the camera with a smile on their faces.

Adrian's wife, the same age as him, is in her 40s this year, but she is well maintained. She looks only in her 30s, and her body is well controlled. After all, Adrian's wife has a face and body every year. , cost more than two hundred thousand dollars.

Adrian's wife, who is also from a good family, understands that in order to maintain a relationship with Adrian, she has to maintain her face and figure, although as Adrian's status and position continue to improve, it is inevitable that Adrian will There will be some connections with certain women, but she still hopes that day will come later.

   "Oh, really, are you sure you heard it right?"

   When Adrian was eating, when he saw his wife received a phone call, he couldn't help but asked in surprise to the phone.

   After hanging up the phone, Adrian's wife covered her mouth and said to Adrian, "Honey, you can't imagine that the Bruno Family Foundation has invested a million dollars in my charity and environmental protection foundation!"

Adrian screamed "also" and looked at his wife who had been with him for nearly 20 years. No matter how he was outside, he knew that when his epitaph appeared, it would definitely be placed with the woman in front of him. Yes, Adrian is also willing to maintain his relationship with the woman in front of him.

   "That means everything you have done has been recognized!" Adrian said to the woman, holding a piece of salad in his mouth.

   While speaking, the Alcatel P1 mobile phone in his hand vibrated when he received a new text message.

  Adrian picked it up and glanced at it, with a faint smile on his mouth. After reading it, he deleted the text message and said to the woman, "I have to say, today's salad is delicious!"

The text message just now was sent by Chief of Staff Matthews. Adrian's campaign office has received multiple donations, with a total donation of more than four million dollars. , foundations, etc., will be gathered on the account of the campaign office.

   Of course Adrian and Matthews knew who had donated this donation. Everyone knew this kind of thing. Adrian had always been assured of Song Yang, the big moneymaker.

   The mobile phone Adrian uses now is an Alcatel mobile phone, and the calling card, broadband, TV network, etc. used are all supplied by America Telecom.

  Adrienne, who was a sheriff in Houston, knew the methods of those investigation departments. He didn't want to be recorded on the phone and text messages he sent.

  Alcatel mobile phones, America Telecom, etc., are not necessarily the most reliable, but Adrian is already one of the few, and he can choose the mobile phone, telecom card and broadband that he can use with confidence.

   The next day, Rosperetti Bank on the New York Stock Exchange officially changed its name to PayPal Bank, and then announced that it would reorganize its board of directors.

   Affected by this news, PayPal's stock price not only did not fall, but started to soar again. PayPal Bank is not like a bank at all, but more like an Internet concept stock. With a little bit of trouble, the stock price began to scramble!

  Especially after the name change, PayPal Bank immediately released a lot of good news. The Houston Municipal Department announced that it would hand over some funds for public facilities and city public housing projects to PayPal Bank, which is sending money to PayPal Bank.

  These projects are all municipal projects. As long as the Houston municipal department does not go bankrupt, PayPal Bank will invest money in these projects, basically collecting interest steadily, and there is no need to worry about losing money.

   The purpose of this announcement is not to tell the outside world how much money PayPal can make, but to tell those investment banks and institutions that the PayPal crisis has been lifted and the relationship with the local snakes has been restored, so there is no need to worry about bankruptcy and closing.

Several companies under the North American Global Investment Foundation, as well as investment industries, etc., Double Click, ICQ, America Telecom, Alcatel Mobile, PA Semiconductor, Fortinet, eBay, Amazon, and overseas Yeadex, Sohu, 8848, etc., They also announced their cooperation with PayPal Bank.

  For a while, PayPal Bank appeared to be very powerful, and even the slogan "Internet's own bank" appeared, calling on American Internet companies to cooperate with PayPal Bank...

   It’s hard to tell if it’s true or not, but the slogan is really high. PayPal Bank took advantage of the situation to announce that it will establish a branch in San Jose. This is the first time that it started out of Houston and began to expand its site from the previous Ross Peretti Bank period.

PayPal's stock price has skyrocketed today, and it has been slammed all day long. A number of Wall Street institutions have entered the market to rush to raise money. PayPal's stock price exceeded $81 at the highest point, and its market value exceeded $5 billion. This is the first time this bank stock has been listed!

John Harder finally threw more than half of PayPal's stock at the stock price of $80. He is not sure whether the stock price of PayPal Bank will rise higher, but he feels that his heart can't stand this kind of stimulation. .

After Conor returned to Houston, he immediately began to reorganize the board of directors of PayPal Bank. In this seven-member PayPal Bank board of directors, only two were directors of the original Ross Peretti Bank, and the remaining five were Song Song. Yang, Greck, Marcus, Aaron Swartz, and an independent director invited from outside, Kenneth, president of the Enron Group.

   This list aroused some doubts. The original group of directors of Ross Peretti Bank were also very dissatisfied. They felt that they had been kicked out of the restructured PayPal Bank.

   But those who are dissatisfied and those who oppose it can't make any waves at all, because the entire PayPal Bank, from top to bottom, from inside to outside, has no opinion on this board of directors.

  The restructured PayPal Bank announced that it will not lay off employees, and the salary of ordinary staff will be increased by 3%, and the salary of management will be increased by 5%!

And Wall Street institutions, as well as small investors, like John Harder and other leeks, don't care who has the final say in PayPal Bank. What they care about most is dividends and stock prices. Don't think about dividends, just change the name PayPal Bank's previous bear-like, simply can't come up with money to pay dividends.

But today's soaring stock price makes those investors very satisfied. They only need to see PayPal's stock price rise. Those analysts are advocating the performance of PayPal Bank after it was taken over. As for who the board of directors is, they Don't want to know.

  The new board of directors of PayPal Bank was quickly formed. The entire PayPal Bank basically belongs to the North American Global Investment Foundation and the Bruno family!

PayPal Bank is noisy, and the PayPal payment platform is not idle. Just after the acquisition of PayPal Bank, it immediately announced the establishment of the risk control department. The bank merged with the risk control department of the payment platform, and Conor was the new president of the risk control department , and PayPal's risk control department will cooperate with Bank of Comerica, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Citi and other banks to build a risk control data center and system covering more than ten states and covering more than 87 million users!

  In addition to the risk control department, PayPal payment also announced that it will, together with PayPal Bank, establish operation centers and offices in American states and overseas markets, allowing PayPal to go from online to offline.

   This is also to prepare for the newly launched credit and mortgage business. After the establishment of the risk control department, the PayPal payment platform will launch the credit and mortgage business online, which can be processed online or applied to the offline PayPal bank.

   But what caught the attention of the entire Wall Street the most was that PayPal, under the operation of Goldman Sachs, obtained a fund sales license, as well as insurance, bond and other licenses.

If PayPal applied for these licenses by itself, it would not take a year and a half to think about it. Even if Song Yang asked Adrian and the elephant party, it would be useless, because most of the federal financial departments and institutions are donkey parties. The people over there are not in the same way as Song Yang.

   But Paulson went out and these are not problems. Paulson asked Goldman Sachs to guarantee PayPal and applied for these licenses for PayPal.

   And PayPal is also on the platform, and began to sell an Internet concept fund issued by Goldman Sachs. This fund is mainly to invest in Internet stocks.

Goldman Sachs and the entire Wall Street are also quietly staring at this fund issued by the PayPal platform. Has anyone subscribed for it, and whether it can raise the funds needed for the issuance? These will allow Wall Street to see whether PayPal has any potential!

   (end of this chapter)