Chapter 130: The gongs and drums are in full swing
Mayer Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild family, has a famous saying that the hands of giving money are always higher than the hands of taking money. This sentence vividly illustrates the status of bankers in social and economic activities. For the best talents in the world, Wall Street is always a place that makes people yearn for. Every year, outstanding students who graduate from the best universities in the world regard entering the five major investment banks as their ultimate goal.
After a series of capital storms last year, Seriosha recruited three of Wall Street's top investment masters, among which Bill Gross became the head of the securities investment department of Columbia Bank, while Peterson and Schwartzman sold 80% of the shares of the Blackstone Group founded by the two to Columbia Bank.
Now the Columbia Bank, which has three trillion yuan, has ammunition in hand, and plans to do a big fight on Wall Street. The bond fund managed by Bill Gross was first supplemented to $50 billion, which is enough to make Bill Gross look down on most of Wall Street's bond funds. Blackstone Group received $20 billion in funds, and they can acquire their favorite companies in the US capital market. Seryosha, who was trying out on Wall Street, did not intend to overspread the stall as soon as he came up. This small amount of money was just for Blackstone Group to make the money go.
Try your skills with Colombia's investment department. In the future, Seriosha will invest more funds to these two departments as they develop. Whether it is Bill Gross or Blackstone Group, Seriosha firmly believes that with their ability, after obtaining the initial start-up capital, they will slowly find their right direction. These two departments will bring long-term and stable returns. But at present, there is an easy and easy opportunity waiting for Seriosha, which is to enter the US securities market in the Internet era soon.
With the smooth progress of Iridium's basic network plan, the fashionable Nasdaq has connected its transactions to Iridium's network. However, some relatively conservative New York Stock Exchanges are still consulting Iridium's technical issues. In the United States, large financial institutions are mainly concentrated on the East Coast, and the construction of Iridium's basic network also started from the East Coast. The network brings a completely different communication experience to the financial industry. People can finally accept quotations synchronized with the exchange in real time in their offices, rather than contacting their stock brokers in the past, and then trading after confirming the quotation. This can be more convenient for many investors to grasp the ever-changing market.
However, the Internet is a new thing, and there are also loopholes that financial institutions have not considered exposed in front of Seriosha. High-frequency trading is the biggest opportunity. Seriosha hopes that Columbia Bank will become the first company on Wall Street to conduct programmatic trading, because no matter how fast the trader is, it cannot be compared with IBM's giant computers.
Because Nasdaq has been connected to Eva's business network, Seriosha's first programmatic trading platform planned to use Nasdaq as the development blueprint. Under Mikhail's US dollar offensive, IBM took out its latest giant computer products and specially sent engineers who had been in charge of financial development of the US Treasury Department to serve the system of Colombia Bank.
However, IBM's main task is to enable this giant computer in Colombia to automatically match stock quotes on the Nasdaq market. The most critical part of the entire system is actually in the hands of Yota Communications. Eva secretly arranged the top routing algorithm engineer to be responsible for making Colombia Bank's transaction data spread on the Internet at twice the rate.
In order to maximize the trading speed of this system, Seriosha even bought a property not far from the Nasdaq Exchange to install this giant. Seriosha also bought the property next to the New York Stock Exchange. After the New York Stock Exchange announced that it would accept the commission on the Internet, Seriosha would arrange a similar system.
IBM's development capabilities are really not enough. In just one month, the system was officially put into operation. After half a month of testing, this system basically met the performance requirements required by Columbia Bank.
However, this system has only been developed for more than half of the time, because there is another key point, that is, the high-frequency trading model needs to be entered into this main computer, because only in this way can the main computer find a safe price difference to match transactions according to the model's guidance, and earn double returns from the buyer and the seller respectively.
This kind of thing is not easy for IBM people to know. Fortunately, Seriosha still has talents in this field. Grigori and Berezovsky have long hired a group of mathematicians to design sports prediction models for the sports bookmaker William Hill in Yuri. This kind of thing is much more complicated than the financial model that Seriosha urgently needs now. Therefore, Grigori and Berezovsky can take this matter to the end.
Seryosha asked Mikhail to bring Bill Gross closer to the development team of this system. Bill Gross' years of investment career has long formed a complete trading system, and only with it can we tell what functions this system actually requires.
After Selyoscis continued to assign the task, he was not only concerned about the following progress from time to time, but also worried about the following progress. At this time, the news that came from China was still not optimistic, and Jeltsin and Ligachev had not decided the outcome. This forced Selyoscis to find another excuse to postpone his return home.
Due to his identity, Selyosha could not cross the Iron Curtain as he pleased. When Selyosha stood on the land of East Berlin, he really wanted to see what Volkswagen has developed now. Fortunately, Kalim could not be restricted. With the recommendation of the middleman of the Rothschild family, Kalim got an opportunity to visit the Volkswagen factory.
When Kalim returned to East Germany from West Germany, Seriosha couldn't wait to ask about the current situation of Volkswagen Factory.
"Seryosha, this company is now basically in the hands of the German government. If we want to acquire it, we must first overcome the German government. There is an agreement between Volkswagen Group and the government, and only by buying 80% of the shares of Volkswagen Group can we acquire this company." Kalim introduced to Seryosha.
Chapter completed!