Chapter 1094 Yang Ming rewards Sarah and Diana with 1 million Hong Kong dollars respectively
1986 3 Month 22 Day.
February thirteenth.
It’s the full moon wine for Yang Ming and Sarah’s eldest daughter, Yang Baolan.
In addition to the people from the Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa, Yang Ming called Mai Lisi and Ma Shimin to attend this simple full moon banquet.
In this era, rich people still attach great importance to full moon banquets.
However, Yang Ming took his identity into consideration and in order to prevent Yang Baolan's growth from being harassed and affected by the outside world, Yang Baolan's full moon banquet was indeed very simple, with only a few people in total.
The full moon feast is held in the evening.
At this time, Mailisi and Ma Shimin came to the Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa to attend the full moon banquet. They didn't even bring their families.
The full moon feast has not yet begun.
The two of them went upstairs to the study room.
On New Year's Eve, Yang Ming had revealed in advance to Barlow, the head of Imperial Group's European headquarters, that he wanted to swallow up Standard Bank.
At this time, it was already March, and the time to swallow up the Standard Bank was getting closer and closer.
Because historically, next month, Country Y Bank is preparing to make a comprehensive acquisition of Standard Bank at a price of 750 pence per share.
For Standard Bank, Yang Ming is determined to win.
In addition to being the second largest foreign bank in Hong Kong and owning the right to issue banknotes in Hong Kong, Zada Bank is also the largest shareholder of Standard Bank, the largest bank in Africa.
Swallowing Standard Bank means not only controlling this very large multinational bank.
It even swallowed up Zada Bank, the second largest foreign bank in Hong Kong, and became the major shareholder of the largest bank in Africa.
"Boss, do you mean to acquire Standard Bank?" Ma Shimin asked in surprise.
Standard Bank can be said to be at the top of the list in country Y.
The most important thing is that this is a multinational bank with business all over the world, far beyond the overseas trust banks currently controlled by the Imperial Group.
"Merith, CitizenM, this is a very good opportunity. I have received news that Lloyds Bank is going to fully acquire Standard Bank. In addition, the share price of this bank is not high, 88% is still Investment institutions own it, and management really doesn’t hold many shares.”
Meris and Ma Shimin were both surprised when they heard it.
If Imperial Group really swallows Standard Bank, then Imperial Group can fill another big gap in the financial banking sector.
Most importantly, it is already the end of March.
In April, Lloyds Bank will propose.
In addition, institutional investors favor Lloyds Bank.
At this time, the standard bank is in a very dangerous state.
Historically, the stalemate lasted until July, when wealthy Asians such as Qiu Teck Pho and Bao Yugang began to buy a large amount of shares in Standard Bank.
For example, Bao Yugang spent 22 billion Hong Kong dollars to buy 14.95% of the equity, which is roughly calculated based on the total market value of 150 billion Hong Kong dollars.
In Yang Ming's view, this market value is not too high.
Even if the market value exceeds 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, he thinks it is still very worthwhile.
Merliss and Ma Shimin were even more surprised after hearing this.
Especially since Melis hasn't heard the news yet, the boss already knows.
"Merith, I have asked Barlow to make preparations. At the end of March, you will fly to London and be directly responsible for this acquisition. As for the cabinet matters, I will leave it to Ma Shimin for the time being."
In other words, when Merliss was away from Xiangjiang, Ma Shimin temporarily served as the interim cabinet general manager.
In fact, with Yang Ming staying in Xiangjiang, there is no need to worry about any problems even if Mai Lisi leaves Xiangjiang for London.
Merith nodded.
He knew that the acquisition of Standard Bank was very important, and if he missed the opportunity to acquire it, it would be difficult to acquire it next time.
As for who will be the general manager of Standard Bank after the acquisition, Yang Ming already has a candidate.
Yang Ming, Mailisi, and Ma Shimin are still discussing here.
Wait for the three of them to finish their discussion.
19:00 in the evening.
A simple full moon banquet was officially held here at Repulse Bay Mid-level Villa.
When Sarah hugged her daughter and appeared in front of everyone, Meris and Ma Shimin looked at Sarah, and then at their daughter beside Sarah.
From the two of them, they felt that Sarah's original choice was really wise.
Meris and Ma Shimin presented their gifts and looked at the future princess of the Empire Group again.
19:30 in the evening.
The full moon banquet officially begins.
It lasts until 21:00 in the evening.
The full moon party is over.
And tomorrow there will be a full moon party for Yang Ming and Diana's second son Yang Tuowen.
Yang Ming doesn't plan to tell too many people, just hold it briefly.
However, Meris and Ma Shimin will still come to participate tomorrow.
In the future, Yang Ming's sons and daughters will have the opportunity to become the heirs of the chairman of the Imperial Group.
. . .
That night.
In addition to Yang Ming announcing a reward of 100 million Hong Kong dollars to Sarah, in fact, for Sarah, she now has everything.
Thinking that her daughter would be raised by someone else, Sarah was really reluctant to let go.
However, she knew that with Yang Ming's current status, she had to do that.
Moreover, this kind of raising method is also very normal in Europe and the United States.
After Sarah and her daughter returned.
Yang Ming returned to the study upstairs.
Tonight, Alina, Yingla and others saw with their own eyes that Yang Ming awarded Sarah 100 million Hong Kong dollars.
Even 100 million Hong Kong dollars will be very valuable in the future, let alone this era.
Of course, with this money in a separate account, Yang Ming will ask Sarah to invest the money. It is not impossible that this money will become billions or even billions in the future.
Have a night's rest.
February 1986, 3.
February fourteenth.
Today is the full moon party for Yang Ming and Diana's second son, Yang Tuowen.
The people attending the banquet were still the same people as yesterday.
Including Mai Lisi, Ma Shimin, He Chaoluo, Lin Xiuzhi, Alina, Yingla, Guan Jiahui, Zhong Chuhong, Chen Bo, Song Shaoguang, and the servants of the Yang family, all together there are several people.
This is no different from yesterday's full moon banquet.
However, the possible son can still be seen to be somewhat different. People like Meris, Ma Shimin and others looked at the son of the imperial group and felt that they had more hope of becoming the future heir.
Regarding the acquisition of Standard Bank, Yang Ming had already discussed it with Mai Lisi and Ma Shimin yesterday, but they did not discuss it again today. Instead, they chatted outside and talked about other things.
Wait until the full moon party is over.
Just now, both Meris and Ma Shimin drank, and Yang Ming asked the bodyguard to take them back in person.
Wait until Uncle Chen, Song Shaoguang and others also return.
The place at Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa soon became quiet again.
Of course, Yang Ming just announced in public that he would reward Diana with 100 million Hong Kong dollars. This money is also Diana's money, and the account is an overseas trust bank account.
The Empire Group can pick up this money and invest it for Diana, and it can also withdraw it at any time.
Although Yingla's Shinawatra family is already very rich, Yang Ming directly rewarded the two girls with HK$100 million each. Yingla had to sigh that Sir Yang was really rich.