"Hello, Your Highness, I am Benjamin Rothschild..."
Barron met the middle-aged man after his conversation with Colin Hall.
When the other party gave his name and handed his business card to Barron, Barron's pupils froze.
Benjamin Rothschild, executive vice president of Rothschild & Co.
Whether judging from the other party's surname or his position, he is from the Rothschild family.
In his previous life, Barron had of course read the book "Currency Wars", which was once a best-seller in China, when he was young.
Since then, the Rothschild family has been widely circulated in China, saying that they control the Federal Reserve, control the world, and are the richest mysterious family in the world...
In fact, there are many fallacies in this. The real Rothschild family did have a glorious time before World War II, and once controlled the financial lifelines of many European countries including Britain. However, in the United States, it was squeezed out by local capital long ago. Coupled with several misjudgments later, although the power of the Rothschild family is still not to be underestimated, it is mostly limited to Europe... and it does not rank very high in the world.
Last year, LCF Rothschild Group ranked only around 15th in the global M&A business.
And it is important to know that the Rothschild family also has many branches. It can be said that many members of the Rothschild family have been marginalized and are not even much different from ordinary people.
But the Rothschild Group still has considerable strength. For example, LCF Rothschild Group's main business is in Europe, and the scale of assets it manages is around 80-90 billion euros.
The Rothschild family still controls approximately 49% of the shares of LCF Rothschild Group, and Rothschild & Co belongs to LCF Rothschild Group, also known as NM Rothschild Bank. This bank, which mainly engages in investment banking business, is managed by Benjamin and his father.
At this moment, Barron had already recalled the information about Benjamin Rothschild in front of him.
After all, at this time, he definitely needs to know the basic information of several financial giants in Europe.
"Hello, Mr. Rothschild, I wonder why you are meeting me this year...?"
"For friendship, Your Highness."
Benjamin Rothschild said to Barron with a confident smile.
…
The convoy was driving on the roads of London, with neon lights shining outside the car windows at night.
Sitting in the back seat of the Rolls-Royce, Barron was thinking back to his meeting with Benjamin Rothschild...
"Friendship? Mr. Rothschild, friendship always needs some foundation."
"Your business is going well, and we have the funds. That is the basis of our friendship, Your Highness."
Benjamin walked to the table, picked up Barron's glass, and said,
"This is your glass, Your Highness..."
With his other hand, he opened the bottle and poured the whiskey into the glass...
"Our funds are like the wine and the ice in the glass. They are worthless, but when the wine soaks in the ice, they become delicious."
He handed the glass to Barron:
"What do you think, Your Highness?"
"I have many wine glasses. Which one would you like to turn into something delicious?"
Meeting Barron's gaze, Benjamin Rothschild said:
"We, the Rothschild family, are only interested in the biggest one."
"Oh? You mean O2 Telecom?"
"No, it's DS Capital."
…
"Mr. Rothschild, it seems that he is not ready to accept your friendship."
Colin Hall said to Benjamin after Barron left.
Benjamin Rothschild sat in Barron's seat and cast his eyes on the glass of whiskey that the other party had left on the table without touching it.
He picked up the wine glass, carefully observed the wine soaked in ice cubes in the glass, and said to Colin Hall lightly:
"What a beautiful color! Good wine should not be wasted, Mr. Hall."
"So what are you going to do?"
"There is always a way, and besides, don't we still have you?"
He looked at Colin Hall and drank the wine in his glass:
"I must drink this glass of wine."
…
Wednesday, November 10th.
Finn Hudson, CEO of Global Industrial Investment Fund, went to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for inquiries.
At the same time, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) of the United Kingdom announced that it would investigate Standard Chartered Bank regarding DS Capital's loan financing.
After the London Stock Exchange opened that day, Summit Media's share price continued to fall, but when its share price fell to 20 pounds, it was as if an invisible hand was holding it up steadily at this price...
No matter how many subsequent sell orders there are, they will all be wiped out at this price.
In the end, a huge buy order of 2 million shares appeared on the buying side, which made many investment institutions understand that there was big money supporting the share price of Summit Media, and 20 pounds was the bottom line.
"Mr. Rothschild, this huge purchase order now makes it impossible for us to continue to short Summit Media in a scattered manner..."
"Digest it in one fell swoop!"
After hearing the boss's order, a huge sell order immediately wiped out the buy order of 2 million shares.
But then, another buy order for 2.5 million shares at a price of 20 pounds appeared...
"Boss, this…"
"Check where the funds are buying the shares of Summit Media!"
Benjamin Rothschild frowned and said.
He picked up the phone, dialed the number, and asked:
"Mr. Hall, are you sure DS Capital has no more funds now?"
"DS Capital has just completed the acquisition of Gucci Group. According to our calculations, they do not have any extra funds. Moreover, most of their company shares have been mortgaged. Even the shares of Gucci Group have been mortgaged to Standard Chartered Bank..."
It was Colin Hall's voice on the phone. He was naturally also paying attention to the stock price of Summit Media today. This was the key point for them to leverage DS Capital... or to topple the dominoes.
"Under the current circumstances, if Standard Chartered Bank dares to make additional loans, the FSA will definitely hold it accountable. If it uses funds from the Mars Fund..."
"The Mars Fund is also under our attention. If he doesn't want to cause trouble, he won't do this!"
…
"Your Highness the Duke..."
Barron looked at Nigel Inkster who walked into the office and asked casually:
"Why, any news?"
"Yes, those two members of parliament are not clean themselves... Especially the member of the Liberal Democratic Party, who can be said to be very brilliant."
Nigel handed a document to Barron, watched him flip through the contents, and asked:
"Should we teach him a lesson?"
"There's no rush. He's just a small fry. If we make a scene now, it'll be easy for others to think we're seeking revenge."