Chapter 1702 Preferential Treatment

"Zurich is below," they arrived at the destination after nearly fourteen hours of flight.

When they left San Jose, it was more than ten o'clock in the morning. In Zurich time, it is still more than ten o'clock now, but it is more than ten o'clock in the morning on the 25th.

"It's so beautiful," Feng Yiping said sincerely.

Looking down from the sky, the most attractive thing is the dazzling white of the snow-capped mountains next to it, the deep green around the city, and the Zurich Lake in the southeast of the city that looks like a crescent moon.

Not to mention these, you can also see large areas of green in the city. No wonder it is said that this is a garden city on the lake and the most livable city in the world.

"This is the richest city in Europe," Mike said.

"All Swiss banks are headquartered here, how can it not be rich?" Sandberg said.

This is indeed the most prominent feature of Zurich. The world-renowned Swiss banking industry, including UBS, and the global or European headquarters of many private banks in the world are all concentrated here.

Bahnhofstrasse here is considered by many to be the richest street in the world. It is believed that the funds mobilized from here every year exceed 20% of the world's funds!

This is a real financial capital.

Feng Yiping and his team soon had close contact with the banking industry here. As soon as they arrived at Zurich International Airport, UBS's airport pick-up staff were already waiting at the airport.

"Hello, Luca," Feng Yiping saw the middle-aged man standing in front of him at a glance, who was his account manager.

"Hello, Mr. Feng," Luca, who was already in his thirties, shook hands with Feng Yiping respectfully, and then pointed to the short man next to him who wore black-framed glasses and had a graying haircut and said, "Mr. Feng, let me introduce you, this is our Vice President Matteo,"

The Vice President Matteo, who looked over 50 years old and very calm, smiled and shook hands with Feng Yiping, "Hello, Mr. Feng, welcome to Switzerland,"

"Thank you, it's nice to meet you, Mr. Matteo,"

It turned out to be the Vice President? Mike and the other three who followed Feng Yiping were really surprised. From today on, there will be more than one or two wealthy people coming to Zurich, and there will obviously not be too many vice presidents of UBS, let's say ten. Doesn't that mean Feng is obviously one of the ten most important clients of UBS?

But after thinking about it, he was relieved.

However, he is only in his twenties, but he has already ranked among the top 20 of the Forbes World Rich List with a net worth of more than 10 billion US dollars. His business has been developing rapidly and has unlimited room for growth. It is not surprising that UBS can give him such a courtesy.

There is no need for actuaries. Many engineers in Silicon Valley can see Feng Yiping's growth potential. It must not be a problem for him to sit in the top few places on the Forbes Rich List. The problem is how fast he will sit there.

"All of Mr. Feng's itineraries in Switzerland are handled by Luca and me," said Matteo.

Mike and Randolph rolled their eyes helplessly. It turned out that the vice president of UBS provided personal service. I'm afraid that few people can enjoy such treatment.

"Thank you, but you really don't have to be so polite,"

"It's my pleasure, Mr. Feng," Lukla opened the door of a Mercedes-Benz, and Matteo made a "please" gesture.

Feng Yiping looked at his watch, "We need to go directly to Davos,"

"No problem," Matteo said readily, "but our bank hopes to have the honor of inviting you to our headquarters in the next few days,"

"I'm honored," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

He had already arranged the relevant itinerary for Zurich. He was busy, but the kind of busyness that he could make his own decisions. It was a rare trip to Switzerland, so he had to take time to go shopping.

Zurich looked very modern, but not the kind of modernization in China. From the perspective of architecture, not only did it retain many buildings that looked old at a glance, but many obviously newly built buildings were also very coordinated with these old buildings. They were still in the style of the last century or the 19th century, very harmonious.

Although this is a tourist city, it looks very quiet overall. Oh, maybe it's not the peak tourist season now.

Matteo also explained this point immediately, "Summer in Zurich is the most suitable season for tourism,"

"I think I will definitely create an opportunity to come here," Feng Yiping said.

Objectively speaking, the mountains and rivers here are definitely not the most unique in the world. Many years ago, it might have belonged to a poor and barren area.

But after hundreds and thousands of years of development, after generations of efforts, plus years of investment in visible and invisible places, this place has been built into one of the most livable cities in the world.

From this perspective, the current Wuli'ao may become at least the most livable city in China in the future.

"Just one phone call," Matteo said, "one phone call, and we will make all the arrangements."

Yes, they really value Feng Yiping as a customer. They can say that they have watched Feng Yiping all the way, from the beginning when he was just qualified to open an account with UBS to now becoming a super rich man.

The conclusion drawn by UBS based on the information it has is quite different from the net worth of Feng Yiping announced by Forbes.

They believe that an objective estimate of Feng Yiping's unlisted assets, including his unlisted assets in China, without taking into account the popularity of Facebook and YouTube, which were just launched, would put his net worth at least 20 billion. More than US$10 billion, not more than US$10 billion as announced by Forbes.

He should be one of the 10 richest people in the world at this time.

The most critical point is that although Feng Yiping is developing rapidly, or it can be said that he is advancing at a flying speed, his development is actually very stable.

From the analysis of his current industrial layout, it is absolutely impossible for him to rise quickly and collapse quickly.

Although they do not make assumptions about how high his wealth will be in the future, depending on the development of his businesses, including e-commerce business in China and social networking business in the United States, they will definitely give him special treatment. It's a very wise choice.

That is to say, Feng Yiping has to participate in international conferences in the past few days, which will cause many inconveniences. Otherwise, they will definitely let Feng Yiping appreciate the enthusiasm of Western Europe.

"Mr. Feng, we know that you have plenty of your own funds, but UBS still wants you to know that we will always be your strong backing when you need us,"

Mateo's words were very sincere, as if they and Feng Yiping were really a cordial family.

They know Feng Yiping's personal and company's asset status very well. To be honest, this really doesn't look like a modern enterprise. They rarely even use basic financing methods such as mortgage loans.

It is well documented that the US$2 billion loan with ICBC was his only financing and the largest amount of financing.

But a mere US$2 billion is nothing compared to the total assets of his companies, or compared to his personal wealth.

They gave Feng Yiping such preferential treatment because they hoped that he would consider UBS more when he was in need in the future, whether it was a loan or a cooperative investment.

Compared with loans, cooperative investment is what they look forward to most.

After evaluating Wan Feng Yiping's personal assets, they knew Feng Yiping's investment vision better than anyone else.

"Thank you, I will definitely remember this sentence," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

If there are acquisition projects worth billions of dollars in the future, UBS can really consider cooperation partners, but in the near future, it seems that there is really no such opportunity.

Of course, I really can’t rule it out in the future.

Although Feng Yiping has always been unusually wary of bankers, especially these international bankers, it will undoubtedly be a happy thing to get such a commitment from UBS and be so optimistic about UBS.

As the conversation continued, the convoy drove into the snow-capped mountains and got closer to the town of Davos.

At about 1:30 in the afternoon, they successfully arrived at the small town of Davos in the valley.

It was still snowing in the sky at this time, but perhaps because of the surrounding valley barrier, there was no biting cold wind here. Such a place was indeed an excellent choice for enjoying the snow scenery.

"Boss," Zuckerberg jumped out of the hotel as soon as Feng Yiping got off the bus and gave him a warm and firm hug.

Schmidt, who also welcomed him out, looked at Mateo, who was standing aside with a smile, with complicated eyes.