HSBC '始める，決める for a £6 billion US buy'

By Lachlan Colquhoun
Updated: 00:00 BST, 10 May 1999

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London and Hong Kong-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d banking 巨大（な） HSBC seems 始める，決める to 明かす a major 取得／買収, with rumours 渦巻くing through the 株式市場 that the bank is to buy the 共和国 国家の Bank of New York for around $10 billion (£6.1 billion).

貿易（する）ing in HSBC 株 was 一時停止するd in Hong Kong today at the company's request 未解決の an 告示 over an 取得／買収. The 在庫／株 dipped HK$12 to HK$270 on Friday まっただ中に a general sell-off.

After the 株 中断, 憶測 すぐに centred on RNB, the centrepiece in the 財政上の empire of Lebanese 億万長者 Edmond Safra. The New York-headquartered RNB has more than $50 billion in 資産s.

Hong Kong 仲買人s were 推定する／予想するing that an 告示 from HSBC in London would follow soon after the market opened today.

Some 報告（する）／憶測s in America （人命などを）奪う，主張する that an 協定 has already been reached between HSBC and Safra over both RNB and Safra's 49% 火刑／賭ける in the Luxembourg-based Safra 共和国 Holdings, a 私的な （弁護士の）依頼人 網状組織.

In 新規加入 to operating an 82-支店 小売-banking 網状組織 in greater New York, RNB operates bank services in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and South America.

仲買人s have been 推測するing recently on the 見込み of a US buy for HSBC ahead of the bank's New York 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing planned for later this year.

The bank's experience in Britain, where it acquired Midland Bank around the time of its London 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing in 1992, has been 討議するd as a precedent for an American move.

Any 重要な US 取得／買収 would 上げる HSBC's 試みる／企てる to 設立する itself as one of the world's 主要な 全世界の banks after 最近の 購入（する）s in South America and Asia.

The bank's 株 price has been on an 上向き curve, climbing to a 記録，記録的な／記録する HK$289 in 最近の weeks.

HSBC 明らかにする／漏らすd on Friday that it was buying another 17% of three Argentine 年金 life 基金s from Deutsche Bank.

The bank has already been on an Asian buying spree, 選ぶing up the nationalised ソウル Bank in South Korea for $900 million, and rumours 示唆する a 購入（する） in Thailand is 切迫した, かもしれない of Bangkok 主要都市の Bank.

設立するd by Edmond Safra in 1966, RNB is the 最新の incarnation of a family 財政上の empire that can be traced 支援する to Aleppo in Syria, where the family 設立する d themselves as gold 仲買人s and 貸す人s to the Ottoman Empire.

The family moved from Beirut to New York after 苦しむing in anti-ユダヤ人の 暴動s in 1948.