For the millet company, we should not be unfamiliar, in the mobile phone premium era, the millet generation of mobile phones to 1999 yuan price of the emergence of the industry to break the conventional, to obtain the pursuit of consumers.
After a big success in the mobile phone industry, Millet turned its eyes to a wider market. This year is the eighth year of Millet, in this period, millet from obscurity to the successful listing, in addition to mobile phone business to force, its digital products, smart equipment products, etc. also contribute a lot. Not only that, millet also enter the home, home appliances industry, launched a millet TV, millet quilts and other products.
On the whole, Millet has become a department store. Recently, according to the Hong Kong Economic Daily Report, Millet recently in the active planning to enter the virtual banking market. The millet group, which is interested in applying for a Hong Kong virtual banking licence, hopes to submit documents before the deadline for the first batch of applications by the end of this month.
It is understood that the HKMA is fully promoting the introduction of virtual banks in Hong Kong, and many banks, non-bank financial institutions and even Internet technology enterprises have expressed their intention to apply for licences. According to the Hong Kong letter, the insight of financial technology by Millet Finance, the first HSBC Chinese large class Vincent Cheng who has been retired, and the incumbent president of the Polytechnic University, Tang Weizhang joined the board. According to the HKMA, over 50 companies are interested in operating virtual banks in Hong Kong as at May 30, 2018.
It is not clear at this stage how many companies will eventually apply for the operation of virtual banks, but the companies submitting applications before August 31 are likely to be the first batch of applications. About the Millet bank rumors, but also back to two years ago, a "Rey private banks, Millet bank came" news spread, provoked netizens to pay attention to.
But the founding of the Sichuan New Network Bank (formerly known as Sichuan Hope Bank) is not a wholly-owned millet, but has millet genes, New Hope Group, millet technology, red flag chain three main promoters of the total share capital of 30%, 29.5% and 15% of the shares respectively. Last year, Lei June at the Millet Company's annual meeting, said that ' in the future, all the business giants are internet companies, but also financial companies, the future of finance will be based on artificial intelligence and large data.
and the financial business of Lei June, which goes back 5 years. In December 2013, Millet Payment Technology Co., Ltd. was formally incorporated, opened the Lei June ' financial dream '. After two years, the official online millet finance, the introduction of ' demand treasure ', ' regular treasure ' and ' Fund treasure ' several financial products.
Soon after, the millet loan fully online. If Millet successfully entered the virtual banking market, then millet will cover payments, loans, pay attention to insurance sales, financial services. At present, the millet finance has been involved in supply chain financing, Internet microfinance, payment, financial products distribution, Internet insurance and other services.