In fact, Masayoshi Son holds only 20% of the shares in Softbank and is the largest individual shareholder. Softbank's current market value is $654.38+00 billion, but Softbank's largest shareholder is Standard Bank of South Africa.
Does standard bank sound familiar? This company is a shareholder of South African Newspaper Group, which is the largest shareholder of another company in China, with a market value of more than 500 billion US dollars.
In other words, Standard Bank is the biggest winner.
However, all this was changed in an acquisition case of 20 14.
2014 65438+1On October 29th, China Industrial and Commercial Bank acquired 60% of the issued shares of Standard Bank Public Limited, becoming the largest shareholder of Standard Bank. In other words, the real big boss is actually the first bank in the universe, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.