Chapter 1096: News that Imperial Group wants to acquire Standard Bank

When Lloyds Bank announced its acquisition of Standard Bank, Meredith and Barlow knew that the Imperial Group's opportunity had come.

That afternoon.

Merrith and Barlow secretly met with Standard Bank executives.

At first, the executives at the headquarters of Standard Bank were very surprised when they saw Morris, the general manager of the Empire Group, and Barlow, the general manager of the European headquarters of the Empire Group, coming to see them.

When it was learned that the Imperial Group also wanted to acquire Standard Bank, Standard Bank did not expect to encounter a wolf in front of it and a tiger in the back.

However, now Meilisi has made several points that are very different from Royce Bank.

First, the headquarters of Standard Bank is still in London and has not moved to Hong Kong.

Second, after Standard Bank was acquired by Empire Group, the management will not change for the time being.

Third, after Standard Bank was acquired by Imperial Group, it basically did not interfere.

Regarding these three points, in fact, for the first point, even if Standard Bank is acquired by Lloyds Bank, the headquarters will definitely remain in London, but the management will definitely undergo big changes by then.

These Standard Bank executives seemed unmoved by the acquisition proposal proposed by Meris.

After all, for Standard Bank, Imperial Group is as strong as, or even stronger than, Lloyds Bank.

If Royce is a wolf, then Imperial Group is a tiger to them.

Today, Standard Zha is targeted by a ferocious wolf in front of the bank, and later by an evil tiger.

The most important thing is that the management of Standard Bank does not hold too many shares now. Basically, the shares are with other investors.

If they didn't get the backing of institutional investors, Standard Bank would either be swallowed up by Lloyds or Imperial.

Standard bank executives were unmoved.

This seemed to be what Merith and Barlow expected.

In that case, we can only take the initiative.

That afternoon.

Barlow held a press conference at the Imperial Group's European headquarters building to announce Imperial Group's comprehensive acquisition of Standard Bank.

Among them, the purchase price is 800 pence per share.

According to this purchase price, it is already 50 pence higher than the purchase price given by Lloyds Bank. According to the current calculation of 1 pound equal to 100 pence, it is equivalent to an extra 0.5 pounds per share.

The most important empire group is obviously much stronger than Royce Bank.

The press conference of Imperial Group's European headquarters has just been announced. Not only Royce Bank was shocked, but other capitals in Europe and the United States were also very shocked.

At this time, Meris had already gone to visit the Prime Minister, Mrs. Satchel, in person.

A few days ago, Meris had met Mrs. Satchell on behalf of Yang Ming and the Imperial Group. This was the second time.

When Mrs. Satchell learned that the Imperial Group was going to swallow up Standard Bank, Mrs. Satchell was not too surprised.

these years.

Under the auspices of Mrs. Satchell, Country Y has been privatizing, and the Imperial Group has swallowed up an unknown number of assets.

It can be said that one-third of the assets in Country Y now basically belong to the Imperial Group.

Mrs. Satchell, the royal family, and even many people in Country Y feel that Sir Yang and the Imperial Group have transferred a lot of assets to Country Y. Otherwise, it would be impossible to acquire so many privatized assets in Country Y.

In this case, they all regarded Sir Yang as one of their own.

It seems normal for Empire Group to announce its acquisition of Standard Bank.

"Mr. Merrith, we will not interfere with the Empire Group's acquisition of Standard Bank. It will be a normal and legal acquisition," Mrs. Satchel said.

After all, the palms and backs of your hands are all flesh.

Imperial and Lloyds looked the same to her.

Although Sir Yang, chairman of the Empire Group, cooperates more closely with her, this time Lloyds Bank also wants to swallow up Standard Bank, and she will not favor any party.

Mellis knew that as long as Mrs. Sutter and the cabinet did not take sides, it would be support for the imperial group.

Now the Imperial Group is so powerful that even ten Royce banks cannot match its liquidity.

After getting Mrs. Satchell's statement.

Meilisi knew what to do.

. . .

The news that Barlow, general manager of the European headquarters of Empire Group, announced the acquisition of Standard Bank quickly spread back to Hong Kong.

At this time, many people in Xiangjiang were excited.

When a Chinese-owned bank crisis broke out in Hong Kong, the Imperial Group single-handedly swallowed up those problematic Chinese-owned banks and successfully solved the Chinese-owned bank crisis for the Governor's Office.

They did not expect that the Imperial Group had already targeted the multinational bank Standard Bank.

Among them, Xiangjiang Zata Bank is still a subsidiary bank of Standard Zata Bank.

Villa in the middle of Taipingshan.

Huifeng Bank’s senior classmate Shen Yi’s family.

Shen Bi also just learned that the Imperial Group wanted to swallow up Standard Bank.

Standard Bank is a competitor of Huifeng Bank in Hong Kong. What does it mean if Standard Bank is acquired by Empire Group?

Shen Yi knew it very well.

Shen Bi had no reason to prevent Imperial Group from acquiring Standard Bank.

What's more, Shen Bi can't stop it now.

Historically, as a shareholder of Huifeng Bank, Bao Yugang even resigned from his position as a director of Huifeng Bank in order to win over Zada ​​Bank, and then became the vice chairman of Zada ​​Bank.

However, now the Imperial Group wants to swallow up Standard Bank, which is somewhat different from the historical investment by Bao Yugang in Standard Bank.

Shen Bi was walking around there.

He decided to meet Yang Ming tonight.

However, Shen Bi didn't expect it.

When he was about to meet Sir Yang, the landline in the living room of the villa rang. It was a call from the Yang family in the Repulse Bay Mid-level Villa.

Yang Ming wants to meet him.

However, it was Yang Ming who came to see him in person.

Now that Yang Ming came to see him in person, it shows that Yang Ming still respects Shen Bi.

. . .

Two hours later.

Yang Ming, Alina, Ying La, Lin Dezhong and others took a car to the Peak Villa.

Yingla and Alina came here and were really attracted by the night view of Victoria Harbor and Victoria Peak.

Yang Ming went in to see Shen Bi.

Shen Yi was already waiting for Yang Ming.

The two of them went directly to the study.

The golden Huifeng Bank Building that Yang Ming gave to him in the study room had already been sent to Country Y by Shen Bi.

Of course, every time Shen Bi thought about it, he felt that Sir Yang was really generous in doing things.

"Sir Yang, I heard that you are planning to acquire Standard Bank?"

"Mr. Shen, actually, we learned that Lloyds Bank was going to acquire Standard Bank before we took action. Moreover, now that Empire Group's business is spread all over the world, it needs a multinational bank like Standard Bank to circulate its funds. business."