Chapter 837

When Li Zekai, Tang Jiacheng, Zheng Zhiheng and Zong Qinghou took Lin Feng's special plane to London, Lin Feng also began to take action.

"How about Mr. Qiu? Are the 400 employees ready to take over from Standard Chartered's UK headquarters? " Lin Feng calls Qiu Debai.

This time, a total of 380 employees of Standard Chartered Bank, the UK headquarters, resigned, making all the businesses of Standard Chartered Bank in the UK almost completely paralyzed. Many British depositors complained incessantly and had to choose automatic deposit and withdrawal by teller machine, which also made many depositors in the UK withdraw their cash one after another. This is also the main reason for the decline of Standard Chartered Bank's share price all the way.

In order to deal with the talent crisis, Lin Feng thought of Maybank, which Qiu deba once held as much as 80%. Malaya bank was founded by Qiu deba. It has 334 banks in Malaysia and 34 branches overseas. Although the Bank of Malaya was later taken over by the government due to the withdrawal incident, Qiu deba still held a large number of shares. This time, Lin Feng hopes that Qiu deba can help him find 400 skilled bank staff to replace the 380 staff of Standard Chartered Bank's UK branch. What's more, it's a coincidence that although Malaysia speaks Malay, English is the common language and correspondence language. Almost all Malayan bank staff can speak English and have no problem in communication.

For Lin Feng's request, Qiu deba was slightly embarrassed. After all, it's not easy to find 400 skilled bank staff in just three days. However, as the former richest man in Malaysia and now the richest man in Singapore, Qiu deba once founded the Bank of Malaya, which has a high reputation and authority in the banking industry in Southeast Asia. For Lin Feng's request, Qiu deba hesitated for a moment and agreed. After all, he has a cooperative relationship with Lin Feng, and he hopes Lin Feng can take care of his children who are not successful. This time he helped Lin Feng, and Lin Feng owed him a great favor, which could not be paid back with money. Qiu deba can imagine that in the future, Lin Feng will do his best to help his descendants in order to repay his kindness.

"Mr. Lin, no problem. These 400 banking talents have been on the plane to the United Kingdom. They will be able to work before the opening of Standard Chartered Bank tomorrow morning. And they are all the most skilled employees in the business of Malaya bank, and they all have the experience of working in overseas banks, so they can definitely adapt to the present work immediately. " Qiu deba said firmly.

Hearing this, Lin Feng felt relieved. With these 400 employees to replace Standard Chartered's UK headquarters, the situation in the UK will be stabilized. As for Hong Kong, what is really important is that Lin Feng has follow-up arrangements.

"By the way, Mr. Qiu, thank you very much this time! I'm afraid this time will bring you a lot of trouble. I'll always remember this kindness. " Lin Feng said gratefully.

Qiu deba gave a happy smile. With Lin Feng's words, he will be satisfied! This time, in order to help Lin Feng, he did spend a lot of effort, but also owes a lot of favor. It's not a small number of 400 skilled and English speaking staff. Only Chiu debar knows the cost. But now with Lin Feng's words, all the efforts are worth it. At least, to put it in a bad way, he can smile.

"By the way, Mr. Lin, I have a word to remind you. Among the 400 employees, the bottom employees are the majority, accounting for 95%, and there are only more than 20 managers, all of whom are grass-roots managers. This time, 20% of the basic management staff, 15% of the middle management staff and 5% of the senior management staff left Standard Chartered Bank. I can't help you make up for these vacancies. " Qiu deba said helplessly.

For the banking sector, these middle-level, especially senior management personnel, are needed by all walks of life. This kind of talent, Qiu deba really has no way.

Lin Feng nodded and understood that these talents were hard to find. However, first of all, we should stabilize the UK headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank. As for these talents, we can only find them again. As long as there is a skeleton here, the bank will stay. Then, go to other places to dig corners! What are headhunting companies doing? That's what they do!

"Well, Mr. Qiu, thank you! If you take good care of your health, don't think about it any more and enjoy your life. I believe your children will be blessed. " Lin Feng said with a smile.

When Qiu deba heard this, he had no more regrets in his life. This is also Lin Feng's disguised promise that he will take good care of his descendants in the future, and that he will never let the Kingdom founded by Qiu deba fall apart because of their contention for family property.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Feng made a phone call to Hong Kong after sorting out his ideas.

"Hello, is that Li Guobao, Li Dong? I'm Lin Feng. " Lin Feng called Li Guobao, chairman of the Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong.

"Hello, Mr. Lin, our bank has talked about your plan the day before yesterday in detail." Li Guobao said solemnly.

When Lin Feng heard this, his palms were sweating slightly. Li Guobao's answer will be another key to success this time. Two days ago, in order to solve the talent crisis caused by the directors in Hong Kong, Lin Feng actually went to Qiu deba to transfer 400 skilled banking personnel from the Bank of Malaya to London, which basically solved the talent shortage of the Bank of London. But in Hong Kong, more than 1200 employees will resign. It is only under the pressure of the Hong Kong government that these employees have not resigned for the time being. However, these people have given an ultimatum to the company (that is, Lin Feng) to leave within the month. Otherwise, they will sue the trade union and the court to solve the matter.

In order to cope with this crisis, Lin Feng, after a detailed account of the banking sector in Hong Kong, took a fancy to the Bank of East Asia, which was founded in 1918 in Hong Kong and is now the last local family bank in Hong Kong. Over the years, the Bank of East Asia has been operating well and has always been a leading local bank in Hong Kong. What's more important to Lin Feng is that the listed and circulating shares of Bank of East Asia are as high as 62.5% (it's not accurate, who has the accurate information will help to say). Moreover, the controlling family, Li's family, only owns 15% of the total shares of Bank of East Asia, and Li Guobao, its current chairman, only owns 3% of the shares, and other members of Li's family only owns the remaining 12%. This equity structure is undoubtedly very tempting. It is not difficult to acquire Bank of East Asia successfully. As long as you invest more money, you can successfully control the Bank of East Asia.

Therefore, Lin Feng secretly acquired 260 million shares of Bank of East Asia at the price of 32 Hong Kong dollars per share (originally 18 Hong Kong dollars, but the premium caused by Lin Feng's acquisition led to a sharp rise in the share price of Bank of East Asia), with a total cost of 1.03 billion US dollars (Lin Feng's personal capital is still 5.479 billion US dollars), becoming the largest individual shareholder of Bank of East Asia.

However, at present, Lin Feng does not want to hold the Bank of East Asia. After all, his own Standard Chartered Bank is enough to achieve his purpose of using the bank to resist financial risks. Moreover, the influence of Standard Chartered Bank is far beyond that of Bank of East Asia. Therefore, Lin Feng's acquisition of 10% shares of Bank of East Asia is only for the purpose of having capital to show Li Guobao's cards and put forward his own plan.

Lin Feng's plan is to cooperate with the two banks. Bank of East Asia will help Lin Feng's Standard Chartered Bank tide over the talent crisis for the time being. First, 800 bank staff will be allocated to the Hong Kong Branch of Standard Chartered Bank. After Lin Feng has trained a number of new talents, these talents will be sent back to Bank of East Asia. The benefit of BEA is that Standard Chartered Bank will give up part of its business in Southeast Asia and jointly develop with bea.

After all, before that, BEA's business volume was mainly in Hong Kong and the mainland, and rarely involved in other places. At present, in the mainland, banks such as industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China Construction Bank occupy the absolute market share, while other banks just eat the leftovers. In this case, Lin Feng took the initiative to allocate part of his Southeast Asian business to the Bank of East Asia, which is full of sincerity.

Therefore, in Lin Feng's view, Li Guobao should agree.

Unexpectedly!

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lin, after the discussion of our board of directors, your plan is very attractive, but at present our bank has no ability to digest the Southeast Asian market. We think it's better to do well in our own market first, and then expect to enter other markets." Li Guobao said it very tactfully. Li Guobao didn't like Lin Feng's plan.

Lin Feng frowned. He didn't expect Li Guobao and others to do so. This is a win-win situation for both sides, but I didn't expect Li Guobao to refuse.

"Li Dong, I think it's a good thing for our two banks. You don't have to think about my" en, it's decided. Guozhang, you should understand that Lin Feng is not a fuel-efficient light. His secret holding of Standard Chartered Bank should have alerted all our banking industry. This man is too enigmatic to do things, and means emerge one after another. I'm afraid to cooperate with him. You should know the holding situation of our family now. If you cooperate with such people, you may not know when the name of Bank of East Asia will be Lin instead of Li. " Li Guobao said.

Li Guozhang nodded. Indeed, Lin Feng's holding of Standard Chartered Bank this time is too unexpected and even a bit crazy. No one thought that a young man who was just wallowing in the IT industry would suddenly become the chairman of a listed bank and a banker. This is crazy! Moreover, Lin Feng's action is too quick and ruthless. Direct holding is a signal to other banks. We should think twice before we cooperate with Lin Feng. It means that one day of cooperation, you will be swallowed by Lin Feng.

As for Lin Feng's 10% stake in the Bank of East Asia, the Li family has a way to deal with it. Before that, it was Lin Feng's Secret acquisition. When they found out, it was too late. Lin Feng already held 10% of the shares. Now Lin Feng wants to buy circulating shares again, which is not so simple. At that time, they can take advantage of Lin Feng's purchase of Bank of East Asia to raise the stock price, forcing Lin Feng's financial resources to be insufficient to support the purchase. What's more, Lin Feng's roots lie in Standard Chartered Bank. Now Standard Chartered Bank is a pot of porridge, and Lin Feng has no time and energy to spend with them.

At the moment, Lin Feng is also worried. The refusal of the Bank of East Asia made Lin Feng's plan come to nothing. What should we do now?

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