Chapter 90 Binzhong Tainan

   "Sir, would you like cash, check, or credit card?"

  The bartender in the shirt vest carries the tray with the bill on it. He walked up to Zhong Shi respectfully, lowered his head and asked in a low voice.

   "Cash." Zhong Shi took out his wallet while talking. Not long after he and Andrew entered the UK, they only exchanged some pounds at the service desk at the airport.

   "Excuse me, do you use British pounds, US dollars or Japanese yen?" The waiter asked again.

   "Uh...is there any difference?" Zhong Shi stopped taking out his wallet. He was very surprised, why the waiter would ask such a question.

   "It's like this, sir. We can pay in different currencies here. Are you from RB?" The waiter smiled and explained patiently.

  In the financial city, although most of them are of white race, with the rapid rise of the Asian economy in recent years, faces of yellow race have also begun to appear here, and among these people, most of them are RB people.

Hong Kong was originally a British colony, and Hong Kong residents could immigrate to the UK at will, but in the 1980s, the British authorities abolished this system because Hong Kong was about to return to China, and the Chinese generally lived in Chinese communities and rarely appeared in the city. Such a place as the center.

  In a place like the Financial City, even an ordinary bartender is often influenced by what he sees and hears, and knows a lot about finance. In such an ordinary bar, there is also a screen showing real-time currency exchange rates, which is full of professionalism.

   "I'm from China!" Zhong Shi was a little annoyed. What he disliked most was naturally being considered a short islander. Although he didn't show his face on the surface, he secretly slandered: My buddy is so tall, why is he always being regarded as a RB person!

   "Excuse me, do you use US dollars or British pounds?" The waiter quickly apologized, but he had sharp eyes and saw the green bills in Zhong Shi's wallet at a glance.

   "Is there any difference?" Zhong Shi hesitated again, retracting his hand that had just drawn out half a dollar, and asked with great interest.

"The difference will not be very big. The main reason is that we provide real-time exchange rate services to customers all over the world, which is convenient for every customer." The waiter still has a polite attitude, and there is no problem because of Zhongshi's excessive He felt a little dissatisfied, but his next answer made Zhong Shi stunned for a long time. "My personal suggestion, you still pay in dollars."

   "Why do you also know the news that the pound is about to depreciate?" Zhong Shi tentatively asked after being stunned for a while. Then he took out a hundred-dollar bill from his wallet, put it gently on the table, and stared at "Franklin" involuntarily.

   "Although our store is small, we know how to avoid foreign exchange risks. Although the money is not much, we still follow the principle of maximizing profits in operation." The waiter was even more astonishing.

   "..." Zhong Shi was speechless for a long time, then handed the banknote to the waiter, completely convinced, "Thank you for your thoughtful service, the rest is a tip."

"Haha, Johnson, stop showing off. No one here knows that you used to be in foreign exchange!" Just as Zhong Shi and Andrew were about to get up, a 30-year-old white man walked up behind them, holding Sipping a glass of whiskey, he was listening to the conversation between the two with relish.

  Zhong Shi and Andrew were taken aback for a moment before they realized what was going on. The two couldn't help but looked at each other and smiled wryly. This is indeed a financial city, and even the owner of a bar is a former practitioner with a professional financial background.

   "William, you're here." Johnson greeted, gave Zhong Shi an apologetic smile, and turned to other tables.

   "Sir, may I have a look at your card?" The man named William asked Zhong Shi while holding a wine glass without looking at him. "Please forgive my presumptuousness, but I accidentally saw the card in your wallet just now, it looks like the VIP card of a private bank, can you lend me a read?"

   "Did you mean this card?" Zhong Shi took out a card from his wallet. This card was specially processed by HSBC for him when he was handling family funds. He deposited 100 million U.S. dollars in HSBC, which alarmed their private banking department. After repeated pleadings from the manager, Zhong Shi agreed to let them handle the funds, so he applied for this private bank card.

  It's a pity that the Huitong black card that can make any request anywhere in the world has not yet appeared, otherwise Zhong Shi would definitely get such a card with his current net worth.

  However, with the current HSBC VIP card, Zhong Shi has also gained a lot of business convenience. For example, you can use the VIP lounge at the airport to wait for your flight, or you can board the plane before other customers, or you can buy stocks in the primary market in the case of some IPOs.

   "You are..."

  The man named William took the card and looked at it carefully for a long time, and the expression on his face changed from doubt at the beginning to dignified. After a long time, he asked cautiously, with a tremor in his voice.

   "Is there anything special about this card?" Andrew on the side was also a little surprised, he hadn't seen Zhongshi use this card a few times. In his opinion, this is an ordinary debit card, at most it has a golden VIP logo on it.

   "This card requires more than one million dollars in fixed assets and a certain amount of consumption every year. At least I can't afford it!" William smiled wryly and handed the card back to Zhong Shi. But when he saw Zhong Shi and Andrew's indifferent expressions, the smile on his face became even more bitter.

These financial people only earn tens of thousands of dollars a year. Compared with those high-ranking bosses, they are equivalent to ordinary migrant workers in later generations. Although compared with ordinary office workers, it is more than enough, but in the eyes of these people , this amount of money is nothing at all.

   "Are you also in foreign exchange?" Zhong Shi put away the card, and suddenly didn't want to leave. He was a little interested in this uninvited William.

   "No, I trade copper futures." William put down his wine glass, stretched out his right hand, and formally introduced himself.

  This William is from the Polish Copper Group, one of the largest suppliers of copper in the world. Due to the need for hedging, they have held an astonishing number of positions on the London Metal Exchange for a long time.

   "Do you know Mr. Hammer?" William asked impatiently as soon as he sat down.

   "Mr. Hammer?"

  Zhong Shi and Andrew looked at each other, and they both saw each other's doubts. They shook their heads in unison, indicating that they did not know who Mr. Hammer was.

   "Oh, sorry, forgot that you are not in the industry. Mr. Hammer is Mr. Hamanaka Yasuo, a trader in the London Copper Market."

  Tainan Hamanaka is a trader from RB Sumitomo Copper. RB Sumitomo Copper is the largest copper supplier in the world, so they are the largest long on the LME.

Yasuo Hamaka is the chief metal trader of Sumitomo Copper in London. The Non-ferrous Financial Trading Department of Sumitomo Corporation under his leadership controls 5% of the global copper trading volume. There are even rumors that his funds can be controlled by one hand. The price of the copper futures contract.

  For such a big man in the industry, all traders of copper suppliers hope to have a little bit of relationship with him, so as to find out the operation strategy of Hamanaka Tainan, and then follow him to make money.

   Regarding being regarded as an RB person again, Zhong Shi was completely speechless. What he never expected was that RB's name was so big in the City of London, even anyone he met casually knew the name of RB's.

Due to the currency appreciation in recent years, the RB consortium has begun to aggressively acquire assets overseas. In addition to the acquisition of natural resources, RB capital has also begun to appear frequently in major financial exchanges in the world, among which there are companies like Hamanaka Tainan of the best.

Zhong Shi and Andrew overestimated the influence of RB people. In fact, in the financial market, there are a wide variety of metal trading products, such as gold, silver, copper, tin, aluminum, lead, zinc, etc. There are different traders in the market, and Hamanaka Yasuo only plays an important role in one of the markets with a relatively large share.

  A character like Hamanaka is an out-of-reach character for a smaller character like William.

  Seeing that Zhong Shi and Andrew didn't know Tainan Binzhong, William said a few more words of courtesy, and then went looking for the next target with a glass of wine.

   Both of them were a little speechless for William's behavior. In fact, for people engaged in finance, every potential opportunity may mean the formation of a big deal, even if it is a small break during the noon break. Therefore, they will not let go of every opportunity to make friends with their peers.

In this industry, hedge funds are at the top of the food chain, followed by international investment banks, followed by those professional suppliers with strong capital, then some capital in the form of funds, and finally those small businesses with their own funds. client.

   It is not without precedent in history that Zhong Shi made his fortune with his own funds, nor will it be the last. In this ever-changing market every day, the myth of getting rich overnight is frequently performed.

  When Zhong Shi and Andrew left the bar, British Prime Minister Major's public speech appeared on the TV screen, and standing beside him was the dignified British Chancellor of the Exchequer Lamont.

"We believe and insist that the existing interest rate policy and exchange rate policy are reasonable, which will have a very good effect on the economic situation in the UK. I reiterate that the current British government is willing and able to keep the pound in Europe. in the exchange rate system."

   On the TV, Prime Minister Major, who looked like a scholar and wore a pair of big wide-rimmed glasses, said decisively. (Thank you brothers for your hard work. Sanjiang’s ranking has been improved a step soon. I hope you can continue to work hard. I will also try my best to show you the code.)

  (end of this chapter)