Chapter 1110

"Yes, the Royal Bank of Scotland!" After hearing Li Feng's surprised response, Jamie Damon looked at his boss a little strangely and replied positively again.

It's no wonder Li Feng was surprised. Royal Bank of Scotland, ah, is a super financial giant that has remained in the top 10 in the world for a long time. Li Feng really didn't think of anything to do with Royal Bank of Scotland. After all, according to the information of later generations, Royal Bank of Scotland is undoubtedly a financial giant.

Although Li Feng's own strength is indeed strong now, it is conceivable that it is difficult to touch such a world-class super giant, and the greater probability is to touch his head and blood.

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

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

In fact, before 2000, Royal Bank of Scotland was not the future super banking giant. Today, Royal Bank of Scotland is just a regional bank. It has strength in Scotland and the UK, but in the global banking industry, it is only beyond the top 200 in the global banking industry.

In other words, the world's top 10 or even top 5 super giant in the future is really not prosperous now. Now it is just a small bank. Because of this, Jamie Dimon, the trusted leader of an international financial giant such as CSCB, looks at Li Feng strangely.

After all, 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, it seems unnecessary for Li Feng to say that he wants to buy Royal Bank of Scotland.

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"I seem to remember that the Royal Bank of Scotland is very powerful. Is there something wrong with their operation?" 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 and has a certain influence even in the UK, that's all. Who knows the Royal Bank of Scotland when it comes out of Scotland or the UK!" Jamie Damon responded again with a little curiosity and surprise.

"Uh..."

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There is no doubt that Jamie Damon's words shocked Li Feng. He finally understood what he was wrong, which was misled by the inertial thinking of later generations.

Future Royal Bank of Scotland is indeed a powerful global financial giant comparable to giants such as Citigroup, Wells Fargo and * * * * but who knows what Royal Bank of Scotland looks like today? After all, it was 20 years ago.

Thinking of this, Li Feng immediately became interested, temporarily gave up understanding the situation of the three newly acquired banks and asked Jamie Dimon to talk about the Royal Bank of Scotland in detail.

"Well, boss, speaking of last year, two banks in Scotland were interested in National Westminster Bank, a large bank in the UK. However, National Westminster Bank Group is a large bank with total assets of more than 200 billion pounds, total capital of nearly 12 billion pounds and annual profit of nearly 1 billion pounds.

Last year, the two Scottish banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotland, originally planned to jointly acquire. If they can do so, it will be of great benefit to the two Scottish banks, and they can leap out of Scotland and England and into the world.

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

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This is not true. Originally, the two banks wanted to jointly acquire, but the final plan failed. Naturally, there was the problem of intrigue after the combination of the two banks, but the huge volume of National Westminster is also an important reason.

Now Bank of Scotland has withdrawn from the acquisition plan, but I found that Royal Bank of Scotland did not give up and still showed interest in National Westminster Bank. Moreover, after studying the general situation of Royal Bank of Scotland, I found that the business philosophy of this bank is roughly the same as that of CSCB. Therefore, I was very interested in the Royal Bank of Scotland and collected some information. "

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

Obviously, the glorious Royal Bank of Scotland in its previous life should have gone from a local regional bank to a world-class bank by acquiring the National Westminster Bank and completing the "snake swallowing the elephant" 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.

"You mean that if the Royal Bank of Scotland wants to buy National Westminster Bank, it needs to raise funds. However, according to the influence of Royal Bank of Scotland in Scotland, it is obvious that the Scottish government will give full support. Can we step in? Besides, how much power can we get after stepping in?" After thinking about it, Li Feng frowned a little and asked back.

At this time, Li Feng also roughly understood Jamie Damon's meaning.

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Obviously, it is almost impossible to wholly acquire Royal Bank of Scotland. The only possibility is to take advantage of the current lack of funds of Royal Bank of Scotland and become a major shareholder of Royal Bank of Scotland with the strong strength of CSCB. Maybe this is just an investment opportunity. Obviously, Jamie Dimon is optimistic about the development of others.

"Boss, although the Royal Bank of Scotland does have a great influence in Scotland, the bank's shareholders are not only government departments, but also a large number of individual shareholders, consortium families in Scotland and Britain. Most of these rich families are unwilling to make the bank a real state-owned bank. Besides, the country's money is not so easy to take." Jamie Damon replied with a smile.

"Well, that's true. After all, if the state completely occupies the status of major shareholder after taking the state's money, the bank will no longer belong to private or private, but will completely become state-owned. Besides, it is also contrary to the current financial policies of England and other places. After all, the original state-owned banks in Britain and even Europe are privatized." Li Feng came over and smiled back.

"That is, in western countries, the relationship between consortia and the government has always been both opposing and supporting each other. The government has always been willing to suppress the power of consortia. Otherwise, there would be no anti-monopoly law and other relevant laws." Jamie Damon replied jokingly again.

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

"Personally, I am optimistic about this investment. Moreover, Royal Bank of Scotland has great influence and contacts in Scotland and the UK, which will be of great help to our new bank's foothold in the UK and even the European financial community."

"Boss, I also think this is an opportunity." Wu Jianmin also broke in with a smile.

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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's board of directors. Since you both think it's good, let's try it first."

Considering the super performance of Royal Bank of Scotland in the future, this is really an exciting proposal. Jamie Dimon is worthy of being known as a "super banker". Indeed, he has great vision. Li Feng naturally has 10000 wishes in his heart, but he deliberately hesitated before giving a positive answer to the two people.

"OK, boss, don't worry, we'll handle it!"

"Well, first you collect information and leave the recent documents on banking affairs. I'll have a good look and learn about the Bank of Sao Paulo and the two new British banks. We'll get together at that time."

"OK, boss, we'll leave first and wait for your notice."

"OK, bye!"

"Bye!"

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