Chapter 222: Every time I come, I have to be slaughtered

Although the profit can be six times as much as expected after the resale, and the unit of measurement is changed from RMB to USD, Goldman Sachs still wants to make every penny as always.

Chen Yuanguang almost laughed out loud when he heard this. It was worthy of the Goldman Sachs he knew.

As a company that rose to prominence during several financial crises, Goldman Sachs must be the most unscrupulous of the many federal financial institutions.

After the financial crisis in 08, even giants like Merrill Lynch went from bad to worse and were eventually forced to sell themselves. Only Goldman Sachs took advantage of the opportunity to rise and leapt from the bottom of the first-tier financial institutions to the top.

In the past decade, as geopolitical crises have intensified, Goldman Sachs has made huge profits.

The disappearance of billions of Malaysia’s national wealth is just one of Goldman Sachs’ operations.

"Mr. Schnander, I know what you are thinking. America will not allow these quantum computers to be sold to Russia. If Alpha Technology has such an idea, you can prevent a single quantum computer from leaving the country, detain it at Malaysian customs, and then mysteriously disappear.

This may not be possible given the bad relationship between Goldman Sachs and Malaysia, but other financial institutions on Wall Street can certainly do it.

But Wall Street is Wall Street, Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley, Goldman Sachs is an American company, Google, Microsoft, and Apple are also American companies. I can choose to negotiate with them and believe that they will offer a suitable price.

Instead of an insincere price like $5000 million.

I forgot to say that soon we will see that financial institutions with quantum computers and financial institutions without quantum computers will be two different concepts.

Maybe Goldman Sachs can use this opportunity to become a top consumer finance company in the United States.”

Although he had never seen Samad's true face, his understanding of Goldman Sachs and the Federation far exceeded Schneider's expectations.

In Malaysia, which is on the edge of world finance, the other party has such a thorough understanding of Goldman Sachs' strategic moves, which is enough to show that they have done their homework.

Because after 18, the traditional sell-side business of Wall Street as a whole has clearly declined.

Ordinary investors outside will feel that the U.S. stock market is flourishing and has been rising. No matter what the external environment is like, the U.S. stock market will rise again no matter how much it falls.

Being inside Wall Street, one can clearly feel that whether it is foreign companies listing on the U.S. stock market or companies within the federal government listing, the fundraising efforts and scale are far less than in the past.

The difficulty in doing traditional sell-side business marked the beginning of Federal Financial’s decline.

What is even more painful for Goldman Sachs is that the biggest piece of fat in the war between Big Mao and Second Mao, Second Mao's state-owned assets were packaged and sold to its competitor BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs got nothing.

For this reason, Goldman Sachs began to transform into personal businesses such as asset management, wealth management, and consumer finance. In order to achieve this transformation, they also cooperated with Apple to launch Apple Card.

Although this business has been losing money, it is a long-term and serious loss.

“In the cooperation between Goldman Sachs and Apple, Apple has always been the dominant party. Apple Card is a good business with huge benefits, but all the profits are taken by Apple, and Goldman Sachs can’t even break even.

However, forced by the downward pressure of the seller's market, Goldman Sachs had to continue to cooperate with Apple. The cooperation agreement signed with Apple in the past two years was no different from a contract of sale.

Apple is not satisfied with taking the lion's share, Goldman Sachs has to give up its profits to Apple.

It can be seen that the technology industry is squeezing out other traditional industries, and this batch of quantum computers can help Goldman Sachs regain the initiative in Apple Card.

Think about it, when other financial institutions are facing the risk of being hacked by quantum computers at any time, only Goldman Sachs' personal business is using quantum computers to provide security.

What a huge advantage this is.

Goldman Sachs can use this advantage to renegotiate the agreement with Apple and sign the revised terms of the cooperation agreement in a direction that is favorable to Goldman Sachs.

Chen Yuanguang deliberately said a lot. In the near future, Samad will openly stand on the stage of Malaysia's highest leader election in the name of artificial intelligence. His current performance in front of Snander is very basic.

When Samad is introduced to the world in the name of artificial intelligence in the future, Chen Yuanguang believes that this conversation will be forced by a federal agency to be recalled word for word.

“So the $50 million offer is simply an insult, not only to Alpha Technologies, but also to Goldman Sachs.

Five hundred million dollars per unit, and ten units cost a total of five billion dollars, which can be offset by Nvidia's latest H300 graphics card.

If they don’t want to, we will just look for other companies.”

Schneider felt a toothache. Although the deal could be reduced to US$35 billion by buying from Nvidia at the market price, it was still too expensive, so expensive that even Goldman Sachs would feel the pain.

But on second thought, the personal business that Goldman Sachs and Apple had cooperated on in the past had already lost $30.3 billion in just three years, so this price does not seem unacceptable.

Schneider is well aware that this batch of quantum computers is the only one that can be purchased in the world except in China.

They don't buy, but there are plenty of buyers in the market.

Goldman Sachs can’t offer this price, but Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple can do it without blinking an eye.

More importantly, if Apple buys it, Goldman Sachs will have even less initiative in future negotiations with Apple regarding Apple Card.

More than 3 billion US dollars can turn my personal business from loss to profit. This deal is definitely not a loss, but why does it feel so painful?

Snander's brain was working frantically. He looked out at the vast city skyline of Kuala Lumpur and thought about a few years ago when Goldman Sachs occupied an entire floor of the Petronas Twin Towers, and now there is only one office left.

He was as painful as he is today, and decided to pay fines to financial regulators in Malaysia, Hong Kong, England and other places. The total amount of fines at that time was about US$30 billion, which is almost the same as this time.

Malaysia is really a sad place for Goldman Sachs, said Snander, "I agree in principle, but the amount is too huge and I need to communicate with Goldman Sachs headquarters.

Determine whether this batch of computers can be used for system encryption.

Samad said, "I will send you a tutorial tonight to teach you how to use it. It's like after-sales service."

Schneider’s face was expressionless: “Okay, I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”

"In the end, Goldman Sachs chose to accept Alpha Technologies' harsh conditions and purchased a total of 50 Haohan-I quantum computers from Alpha Technologies for $10 billion. This will also be the only batch of -qubit quantum computers outside of China after Quantum Shield refused to fulfill the contract.

For this reason, scholars in the field of quantum computers across the federation have expressed that it is a huge waste of resources for such cutting-edge technology products to be controlled by Wall Street.

Jerry, head of IBM quantum computing, even publicly stated: Goldman Sachs will mess everything up, just like they did in the past by piling up the federal debt.

Argenti, head of information technology at Goldman Sachs, said they would use these quantum computers to build the world's most solid security fortress to ensure the financial security of Goldman Sachs clients.

Analysts believe that Goldman Sachs missed the wave of transformation on Wall Street in the past and must now double down on consumer finance in order to catch up with its old rivals Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase.

The former continues to invest in asset management and wealth management businesses and has transformed into a buy-side institution, while JPMorgan Chase is known to be building a universal bank. Goldman Sachs' strong investment banking and other trading businesses are not only facing squeeze from other financial institutions, but also facing the shrinkage of the overall environment.

Solomon had to choose to pin its hopes on consumers and small and medium-sized customers. However, the newly established platform solutions department to achieve this goal has suffered losses year after year, with losses exceeding US$30 billion since its establishment.

To some extent, this transaction can be seen as Goldman Sachs' biggest bet in the personal consumption business, hoping that its leading position in the security field can help them win customers.

According to sources, Goldman Sachs is seeking to renegotiate the Apple Card cooperation agreement with Apple. They hope to seek a larger share of profits, and Apple is willing to give in on the premise that Goldman Sachs must transfer its Vast-I quantum computer.

The negotiations between Goldman Sachs and Apple are still ongoing, but no matter what the final outcome is, Alpha Technology from Malaysia will definitely be the biggest beneficiary of this global encryption system security crisis.

50 million RMB was transformed into billion US dollars. An internal source from a mainstream encryption platform revealed that the actual controller of Alpha Technology achieved a profit of over billion US dollars by going long on BTC.

In other words, Alpha Technology achieved a staggering increase from US$5000 million to US$150 billion in just days, and the company has become the company with the largest cash flow in the entire Malaysian region."

The analytical article from the Wall Street Journal completely exposed Alpha Technologies to the world, and for a time, people all over the world were talking about the myth of Alpha Technologies.

This is a need for public opinion propaganda and a diversion of attention under the control of federal public opinion.

The Federation cannot allow countries around the world to discuss why China can build a quantum computer with 10,000 quantum bits, but America cannot.

If America can't do it, how can we guarantee the security of federal and even global financial organizations in the future?

This will be another crisis of trust, although currently investors other than the Federation have become increasingly distrustful of all types of Federation investments.

However, the Federation is still trying its best to reduce the impact of this aspect through public opinion.

On the one hand, Alpha Technology itself is full of hype, and on the other hand, it was used as a target by the Federation.

"Fuck, 15 billion. No wonder Israel is going after Alpha Technology. They lost 500 million US dollars, but they want to get 5 billion US dollars from Alpha Technology. The Jews really know how to do business."

“I thought that the God of Light was good at business, but I didn’t expect this Malaysian to be even better at business.”

"I feel like this is a bit weird. Previously, when China exported high-tech products to the Federation, the Federation boycotted and prohibited everything. But this time, why didn't the Federation stand up and make excuses when selling this batch of electronic computers to Goldman Sachs?
Does it mean that after visiting Malaysia, it is no longer Chinese?"

"I find it strange, too. Didn't people say before that Chinese equipment had backdoors? Quantum computers also have to be used for encrypted communications, so there's no need to worry about backdoors?

I am worried about backdoors in ordinary communication equipment, but I am not worried about backdoors in communication equipment specifically used for confidentiality? I want to ask you if you have such double standards. "

"I can only say that America's standards are too flexible. If there are substitutes, then it's 100%, but if there are no substitutes, then Chinese technology products can't be installed."

"The congressmen in Washington have stopped standing up and screaming, wishing this hadn't happened."

"Don't poke holes in people's wounds. I'm just curious why there are no photos of Samad leaked online."

After "professional training", Chinese netizens are more sensitive to the guidance of public opinion. Of course, this is also because they care more about Chinese technology. They are much more interested in the transaction itself than in Malaysian technology companies.

Because Malaysia is considered a barbaric place in China. If it weren't for the Malaysian Chinese, they wouldn't even have a presence on the Chinese Internet.

In the subconscious of Chinese netizens, Alpha Technology in Malaysia is just a flash in the pan. So what if it has NT$150 billion? Are they developing artificial intelligence in Malaysia? Don't be ridiculous.

Chinese netizens' attention is all focused on Goldman Sachs.

Of course, some netizens also complained, asking why the quantum computers were not sold to Russia and why they wanted to continue watching Russia run the financial institutions of the Federation and its allies.

The brothers in the Quantum Guodun stock forum got angry when they saw the transaction amount. It turned out that you sold something worth 50 billion US dollars for million RMB. They all called for a thorough investigation of the management of Quantum Guodun to see if they had gained any benefits from Alpha Technology.

Zhang Jun was so angry when he saw this kind of comments. If he had known this earlier, he would never have sold this batch of goods for 5 million RMB, because he really didn't get any benefits this time.

In addition, there is a rumor circulating on the Chinese Internet that Alpha Technology is negotiating with Country Garden, trying to acquire the Forest City project from Country Garden in a package.

Forest City is a project built by Country Garden in Johor, Malaysia during its heyday. It claimed to have an investment of US$100 billion and deceived a group of middle-class people from China's third- and fourth-tier cities into taking over the project.

The slogan of this project is to live in Malaysia, lead a green and ecological life, and enjoy the education of the Lion City.

Because Forest City is on the edge of Johor, it is only separated from Singapore by a strait.

"According to the aunt of the son of my cleaning lady at Country Garden, Alpha Technology is seeking to take over the Forest City project from Country Garden."

"Come on, forget it. They are a company that does artificial intelligence and algorithms. Why would they want Country Garden's Forest City? They're just buying it for fun, right?"

"Country Garden's unfinished project has screwed a bunch of people, and now they are fooling people online, saying Alpha Technology will take over. Why don't you say Huawei will take over?
When I see a noun, I start to associate it with the idea that they will do anything to sell the house, right? "

(End of this chapter)