Chapter 1468: Billions of Pounds

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed.

This week, Xia Yu's energy has been divided between two things.

The first is working with the think tank to gradually improve the action plan for Europe.

The second is constantly communicating with other allies in this operation to clarify the scope and steps of the attack.

These two things are all for one goal.

The reason it hasn't started is because they're waiting!

They're waiting for the extremely eye-catching Bright Foundation fundraising conference.

And today, this fundraising conference is being held in the limelight at the Marco Polo Hotel in London.

The large conference hall is now full to capacity, and everyone was originally talking to the people around them.

But as soon as George Berkeley strode onto the stage with his steady gait, the originally noisy hall suddenly fell silent.

'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first 1987 fundraising conference organised by the Brightness Fund.'

'I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone here!'

'Clap, clap...'

After George Berkeley had made a brief speech and bowed, there was a thunderous applause.

After the applause died down,

George Berkeley continued with a smile, 'A week ago, many of you here shared the feast of wealth with us.'

'3.49391 billion pounds, the largest fund investment dividend in the history of the UK and Europe!'

'You are all part of the record-breaking!'

'Clap, clap...'

'A week later, I see many familiar faces again, and of course, what makes me happiest is that there are many new faces. Thank you for choosing our Bright Fund, and I don't think I will let you down.'

'I've said too much, and you must be tired of hearing it. Let's get straight to the topic you're most interested in!'

'This time, we will launch 10 funds at once, based on the past 41 funds...'

...

'Come on, little ones, look at Daddy. That's a good boy!'

In the morning, Xia Yu had just finished breakfast and was teasing his five lovely children, who had already woken up and were sitting in their respective strollers. Several wives were gathered around, smiling and watching this heartwarming scene.

Just then, the mobile phone on the table suddenly rang.

It was Xia Yu's personal satellite phone, and the only people who knew the number were either the top management of the consortium or people of extremely high social status who could hold an equal conversation with Xia Yu.

The women all looked at Xia Yu, and the closest one, Elena, walked over and took the phone.

'Hello...George?'

'...Good, well done.'

'What is the current public opinion in the UK and Europe?'

'...Good, follow the plan I told you about earlier...'

After communicating with George Berkeley for more than ten minutes, most of the time George Berkeley was talking while Xia Yu was smiling and listening.

After Xia Yu hung up the phone,

Elena had already picked up her son Xia Qizhe and was gently rocking him.

'My dear, you look so happy, is there any good news from the Bright Foundation?'

Since they were both close to him, Xia Yu of course did not hide anything and said with a smile, 'Yes, George Berkeley reported to me that this morning in London, the Bright Foundation's ten newly established funds raised a record amount of money in a single fundraising in the financial sector, reaching 12.83225 billion pounds!'

'Not only was the 3.49391 billion pounds in dividends that were paid out last week all recovered, but a large amount of additional funds were also obtained.'

'Now the entire European financial industry is in an uproar, causing a huge impact on other institutions.'

'My god, why is there so much? !'

'12.8 billion pounds, converted to Hong Kong dollars, is at least hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars, right?'

The women were all shocked.

Seeing the shock and curiosity of his wives, Xia Yu explained with a smile, 'In fact, the main reason for having so much is that this time, we attracted several super large investors, which are national social security or sovereign funds.'

'The biggest of these big dogs is the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which alone has entrusted the Bright Fund with £2 billion for investment management.'

Elena and the others suddenly understood.

'No wonder, it turns out that even the national sovereign wealth fund has come. It seems that the influence of the Bright Fund has spread all over the world,' Cindy Mellon whispered, her face beaming with a big smile. She was genuinely proud of Xia Yu.

After all, this was her husband's industry.

'This is just the beginning. With this additional liquidity of tens of billions of pounds, the influence of the Bright Fund will soon skyrocket again,' Xia Yu said with a smile.

'Isn't that right, my little treasure? Come on, give Daddy a smile,' Xia Yu asked fondly as he took Xia Siqi, his youngest daughter, from Sumitomo Kumiko's arms.

...

The situation was more or less as George Berkeley had reported to Xia Yu.

To put it more seriously:

Many financial institutions are facing a problem that is even worse than the situation described by George Berkeley.

Even if the 3.49391 billion pounds in dividends previously taken by investors are reinvested in new funds.

There is also a large amount of money invested by big investors such as the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

But these 12.83225 billion pounds could not have been raised by these investors.

Nearly £4 billion of this sum was raised by these investors from elsewhere, and a large proportion of this was redeemed from other institutions.

The impact was not insignificant!

It affected the cash flow of many institutions.

Not to mention those institutions that were already in the eye of the storm of public opinion over their losses.

So many crocodiles were waiting for such a great opportunity to open their mouths wide.

And there was no doubt that the Rothschild family was the biggest target.

In particular, the Morgan and Rockefeller consortia had a common goal: to bring down the Rothschild family.

The financial network that the Rothschild family relied on to get started, survive and maintain the entire family consortium was their primary target.

Rothschild Investment Bank, Barclays Bank, the Austrian Central Bank and even the stake in the National Westminster Bank were all targets.

...

At this time, the Bright Fund, which had a huge cash flow, was holding its last pre-operation high-level meeting.

The doors to the meeting room at the headquarters of the Bright Fund are closed, the curtains on the windows drawn tightly shut. The entire room is carefully checked to ensure that there are no surveillance devices.

George Berkeley sits at the top, his face serious, and says to everyone, 'Now that our allies have started their operations, it's time for us to get started too.'

'Let's familiarise ourselves further with the division of labour in the previous plan, and further improve the plan in actual combat.'

'However, two teams will run out of time and must act immediately.'

George Berkeley paused here, and looked at the leaders of the two teams.

'The first target in the investment banking sector is S.G. Warburg.'

'The first target in the banking sector is the National Westminster Bank, one of the four clearing banks.'

'In any case, it must be taken!'

'Yes!'