HSBC in £6.3bn New York 引き継ぎ／買収

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 00:00 BST, 11 May 1999

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HSBC, Britain's largest bank, has 開始する，打ち上げるd one of the biggest-ever 引き継ぎ／買収s of a US banking group.

It is to 支払う／賃金 £6.3bn for 共和国 New York 会社／団体 and its sister company, Safra 共和国 Holdings.

That will give HSBC the third-largest branc h 網状組織 in New York 明言する／公表する with more than 2m 顧客s and 追加する 30,000 豊富な international （弁護士の）依頼人s to its 私的な banking 商売／仕事.

The market worried about the £1.84bn 株 placing, which is partly 財政／金融ing the 取引，協定, and the prospect of HSBC 明らかに slackening its 伝統的な かかわり合い to Asia. The 株 の近くにd 71p off at 2120p.

'We are not moving away from 現れるing markets,' chairman John 社債 主張するd.

Edmond J. Safra 設立するd 共和国 in 1996 with 55 従業員s. The Manhattan-based bank 申し込む／申し出d new 顧客s 解放する／自由な TV 始める，決めるs. Now it has 5,800 staff, 資産s of £31bn, and 申し込む／申し出s 安全な・保証する Internet 接近 to accounts. But 利益（をあげる）s 低迷d last year after 騒動 in Russia.

HSBC's 企て，努力，提案 is 支援するd by 支えるもの／所有者s of 29pc of New York-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d 共和国, which in turn owns 49pc of Safra 共和国, 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d in Luxembourg and Switzerland. Bidding for the 残り／休憩（する） could take until the final ４半期/4分の1 of 1999.

Charterhouse Tilney 分析家 Simon Willis says: 'Strategically, it makes good sense and the price does not seem to be extravagant.' HSBC 会談 of 再編成 costs of £276m and 貯金 within two years of more than £184m.