Chapter 1289: The next step is to open a bank!!

It was Monday again, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange finally reached the time to open.

Originally thinking that after a week, the New York market had improved, and the plummets in other global markets had also been suppressed, so Hong Kong's opening this time should be much milder.

However, after the morning opening, the Hang Seng Index plummeted again as if it couldn't stop!

The heavy selling pressure accumulated over a week caused the Hang Seng Index to dive rapidly from 3362 points. By the close, it had plummeted 1120 points to 2241 points, a single-day drop of 33%!

Such a violent drop created a world stock market single-day drop record, making countless investors who were watching from the sidelines feel tight in their hearts... So, the stock market crash still hadn't passed!

Global market sentiment began to become pessimistic...

However, in Tokyo, not far away, it was another feeling... Perhaps Japan's own economy was very good, or perhaps Japanese regulatory agencies listened to Naoki Nagayama's suggestions. In short, this stock market crash storm in Japan recovered particularly quickly.

It should be said that except for being beaten silly in the first two days, the market seemed to have taken a special medicine in the following days, stopping the decline rapidly, and even had a trend of imminent rebound, allowing regulatory layers, investors, and onlookers to breathe a sigh of relief~

The official speeches of the upper-level personnel were more positive and optimistic each time, and Naoki Nagayama of Tree Friend Capital, who had made important contributions to this, was praised without stint.

A series of high hats like "visionary young man," "pragmatic and steady investor," "..." were all placed on Naoki Nagayama's head, letting everyone know that there was such an amazing young generation in Japan's financial circle...

Just like after a great disaster, they would definitely find a few propaganda models; it was all to appease the public's emotions and boost market confidence... After all, in the stock market crash, there was indeed a large group of investors who really lost until they didn't even have pants left!

As the protagonist, Naoki Nagayama was surprisingly low-key after the disaster, staying at home and wanting to avoid this limelight.

However, Naoki Nagayama, who had been accompanying his family in Shanying Yuan for only a few days, was still called out by a phone call on this day~

The one who called was the receptionist of Tree Friend Capital, Yuko Tianzhong:

"Naoki-san, if you don't appear, the company is going to be squeezed to pieces!"

"... Is it that exaggerated~"

"It's true!"

Although he held some doubts about the receptionist girl's words, Naoki Nagayama still came to Tree Friend Capital in Ginza. After all, he needed to understand the company's business situation after a few days had passed, and also see if the employees were working according to his previous arrangements...

Arriving at the 12th floor, the moment the elevator door opened, the crowded crowd even made Naoki Nagayama think he had come to a vegetable market.

"This... what's going on?"

He originally wanted to squeeze forward, but he couldn't even squeeze in... And he was a strong young man!

"Kono yaro?! What are you squeezing for?!"

The uncle in front was very angry from being squeezed, turned his head and roared first, then looked up at Naoki Nagayama... his tone softened by three points:

"Don't you see everyone is queuing? If you want to open an account at Tree Friend Capital, you have to follow the order!"

Naoki Nagayama was helpless:

"... I'm not here to open an account..."

"Then what are you here for..."

The irritable uncle subconsciously replied, and then seriously looked at Naoki Nagayama, realizing that the young man behind him was handsome and looked familiar, his tone was a bit suspicious,

"You... are you... Naoki Nagayama?"

"Hai... it's me..." Naoki Nagayama smiled kindly, "Can you let me in? I'm going to work at the company..."

"Ah!!!" "It's Naoki Nagayama!"

The uncle's roar made everyone at the door look back, and then the whole elevator room was like boiling water.

"Really or fake?!" "It's really Naoki Nagayama!" "It's the person himself!" "Alive! Alive!" "Catch him quickly!" "Nagayama-san, please, I want to play the stock market!!" "Nagayama-san, take me to make money!" "..."

"!!"

Naoki Nagayama was suddenly overwhelmed by this formation. He experienced the feeling of Akina being surrounded by fans for the first time... After all, although he was famous, he wasn't an idol or an artist, so he didn't have many die-hard fans~

Just when he didn't know what to do, fortunately, Yuko Tianzhong inside Tree Friend Capital discovered it and hurriedly called a few employees to welcome their boss...

"Please let us through!" "Let Naoki-san in..." "Don't block the way..."

A few strong employees squeezed out a path in the crowd and then took Naoki Nagayama into the company.

Separated by the glass door, there was finally space to breathe...

"Tianzhong-chan... how long has this situation been going on?"

"Two or three days!"

Yuko Tianzhong said while leading Naoki Nagayama to the office,

"Ever since Tree Friend Capital started bottom-fishing in the stock market, first it was investment institutions, then it was big clients... After the Ministry of Finance said in its speech that this market rescue was thanks to Naoki-san's suggestions, all kinds of retail investors also ran over..."

After arriving at the office, Naoki Nagayama finally breathed a sigh of relief. He asked:

"I roughly understand what the clients want to do, what are the investment institutions here for?"

"Some want to jump ship, some want to cooperate together..."

Yuko Tianzhong took a folder,

"I have registered the people who came from each institution! Waiting for Naoki-san to handle it..."

"Hmm... well done~"

Naoki Nagayama was very satisfied with his receptionist's cleverness and secretly decided to give more year-end bonuses!

"Also, Naoki-san..." Yuko Tianzhong pointed to the door not far away and said, "There are really too many retail investors coming to the company every day now. How should we handle it? Should we take them all in?"

"Many of them are clients of Nomura Securities, Daiwa Securities, and the like..."

"Hmm~" Naoki Nagayama touched his chin, "Take them in! We already have the confidence now."

Anyway, Tree Friend Capital's reputation was now booming, and it couldn't keep a low profile anymore... Besides, with the knowledge of the general trend for the next few decades, Naoki Nagayama wasn't worried about not being able to guide Tree Friend Capital's investment direction well.

Other things aside, as long as they followed a few unicorns closely, they could feed the clients well.

"Hai... Then I'll go notify the investment managers."

Yuko Tianzhong went directly to notify the investment managers... During this period, they had been following Naoki Nagayama's instructions, maintaining the loyal clients they had on hand, and then using this money to form a capital pool for bottom-fishing.

As for the new clients, without Naoki Nagayama's order, they didn't dare to take them.

When Naoki Nagayama was left alone in the office, he found the registration list a bit difficult:

"Nomura Securities, Daiwa Securities... these old-fashioned securities companies are not weak and have strong capital. This stock market crash won't make them unable to recover..."

"It doesn't matter if we snatch some of their retail investors, but for these big fund managers and the big money behind them... it's better not to, it's both troublesome and risky..."

Social security funds, medical funds, education funds, fire funds, etc., these are all large-scale capital at the national level. Wanting to let them hand over money to Tree Friend Capital for management, not to mention the commission, the aspects involved are all problems.

Besides, after the stock market crash ends, Naoki Nagayama actually won't be short of money.

After thinking for a while, Naoki Nagayama found that the door of Tree Friend Capital had already opened, and teams of visitors began to queue consciously, and then it was Tree Friend Capital's investment managers who began to connect with many people one-on-one...

Without even persuading, just a simple introduction, they quickly took out account opening contracts for these people to sign and press their fingerprints, and then transferred the funds in.

And these clients were all willing to do so... Now everyone knew that Tree Friend Capital was the investment institution that could protect their funds and even make money against the trend in the stock market crash!

Seeing this scene, Naoki Nagayama felt that Tree Friend Capital was like a fierce beast growing sturdily, grinding its teeth and sucking blood, swallowing greedily, seemingly turning Japan's financial circle into its own hunting ground~

"Tiger of Ginza? It looks like it's Tree Friend Capital!"

After making more and more money and controlling more and more capital, Naoki Nagayama was one step closer to becoming a zaibatsu!

"The next step... is probably to open a bank?"

"Be the party that lends money out? Hehe... Lend it out on a sunny day, and collect it back on a rainy day?"

For some reason, Naoki Nagayama suddenly heard an auditory hallucination in his ear...

"Oowada, kneel down!!"

Naoki Nagayama couldn't help but shiver... Tsk tsk tsk, the water in the banking industry is very deep!

Genta Nakai in the United States suddenly received a call from Susan, the receptionist at the Tree Friend Capital U. S. office:

"Mr. Nakai, the office received an inquiry letter from the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission..."

"Inquiry letter?"

Genta Nakai was a professional, so he naturally knew what it meant for the Securities and Exchange Commission to send an inquiry letter,

"What does it say inside?"

"This inquiry letter is for you, so I can't open it..."

"... I authorize it, Susan. Don't think too much at this time, just look at it and tell me the content."

"Okay, Mr. Nakai~"

The sound of opening a letter came from the receiver, and then he heard Susan summarize,

"The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants the U. S. branch of Tree Friend Capital to explain the specific connection between the funds and the Japanese headquarters, and then needs to explain whether the behavior of buying index futures in advance during this stock market crash involved stock market manipulation..."

"..."

Hearing the content of this letter, Genta Nakai felt some pressure.

He and Naoki Nagayama had realized there might be risks before the operation and had made a plan.

All the advance preparations for this operation were compliant, including fund flows, etc... In fact, most of the funds of the U. S. branch were originally in the United States, earned in the foreign exchange market, and very little was remitted from Japan...

As for the reason for shorting, Naoki Nagayama had never hidden it. He had spoken out in Japan, warned the industry that there might be risks, and adopted a conservative strategy. These were all bright facts.

And here in the United States, in fact, major investment institutions had also made predictions, and even anticipated that there would be a big drop during the end of the year, but they didn't take action in time!

In the case of anticipating the stock market crash in advance, using index futures to short and make money was naturally justified!!!

If the U. S. regulatory layer dared to hold Tree Friend Capital accountable for this reason, or punish Tree Friend Capital, it would simply be trampling the basic system of American capitalism into the ground...

Numerous large law firms would be very happy to take on this lawsuit and sue the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission until they shut up!

However... since the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission had sent an inquiry letter, Genta Nakai naturally had to reply properly.

"Susan, notify Aldrich to come to the office for a meeting tomorrow..."

As a local senior investment manager, Aldrich was more familiar with the U. S. market and also understood the rules and regulations very well.

"Okay, Mr. Nakai."

"By the way, contact the law firm we cooperate with and let them send a legal team tomorrow, at least led by two senior lawyers!"

Susan at the front desk was stunned. Although the U. S. branch of Tree Friend Capital had a law firm as legal counsel, generally speaking, any problems were first contacted with legal assistants, and then it depended on the severity to see if senior lawyers needed to intervene.

"But Mr. Nakai, temporarily requesting two senior lawyers, and also bringing a team... the cost will be..."

American lawyers are very, very expensive, especially for this kind of temporary assignment!

"It doesn't matter, you just call them and tell them to come! Money is not a problem!"

Genta Nakai added,

"Susan, be tougher. You represent our facade... You know, now the U. S. branch of Tree Friend Capital is not short of money at all!"

"..."

Susan was shocked by this rich and imposing nouveau riche tone,

"Okay, Mr. Nakai, I'll call them now!"

"Hmm..."

Genta Nakai, who hung up the phone, was still a bit worried. He looked at the time and calculated silently in his heart:

"Naoki-san should be up by now..."

"I still have to tell him about this!"

In the Ginza office, Naoki Nagayama received Genta Nakai's call and understood the general situation... then he let Genta Nakai act according to the plan...

"Hmm, Nakai-san, keep in touch... You can call me directly at any time!"

After hanging up the phone, Naoki Nagayama thought silently...

His Tree Friend Capital was not a real industry, so he didn't need to consider trade matters, and he didn't need to worry about any diplomatic pressure... And he didn't need to worry about the United States directly confiscating the funds of Tree Friend Capital in the United States!

If they dared to do that, then foreign capital in the United States would all run away!!!

It was just a bit worrying that Genta Nakai might be trapped in New York... like Meng Wanzhou... The United States might not necessarily not do this.

"If Nakai-san doesn't come back for a year or two..."

Naoki Nagayama pondered,

"By that time, the Social Democratic Party should have already come to power, and they have a very good relationship with our Tree Friend..."

Tree Friend had contact with the Socialist Party very early, and the Film Association had many room for cooperation with left-wing political parties.

"At that time, launch a diplomatic protest! Force the United States to release people!"

Although there were troops stationed in Okinawa, Japan wasn't afraid of fighting... Even the saying that they could buy the United States could spread, which showed how confident Japan was now!

"Japan's national self-confidence is so high now... It's not afraid to confront the United States!"

Now it's the Cold War era... The United States isn't the world hegemon... There's still a big brother over there!

Anyway, both are defeated nations, what's the difference in standing on which side?

And Japan's mainstream trend now is the left wing, the reflective faction...

The big brother is much closer to Japan!

If the United States pushes Japan to the other side, then the big brother will get a strong aid for free, and the sluggish economy will instantly become strong... By then, the combination of Japan's manufacturing industry and the big brother's energy and mineral resources, the energy that explodes might be able to turn the whole world upside down!

By then, let's see who will cry!! ===== CHAPTER 1290 =====