Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Eyes GE’s U.S. Rail-Leasing Business
三井住友鎖定美國(guó)通用電氣鐵路租賃業(yè)務(wù)
----GE Capital Rail Services could be worth around $4 billion
----通用資本鐵路服務(wù)業(yè)務(wù)價(jià)值約40億美元
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. is interested in General Electric Co.’s U.S. railway-leasing business, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest example of Japanese financial institutions looking for big purchases in the U.S.
三井住友金融集團(tuán)對(duì)美國(guó)通用電氣鐵路租賃業(yè)務(wù)表現(xiàn)出濃厚興趣，據(jù)知情人士透露，這是日本金融集團(tuán)在美國(guó)尋求大宗收購(gòu)的最新案例。
GE Capital Rail Services, which could be worth around $4 billion, also has drawn interest from Wells Fargo and other U.S. financial institutions, the people said.
該人士稱，美國(guó)富國(guó)銀行和其他美國(guó)金融機(jī)構(gòu)對(duì)價(jià)值40億美元通用資本鐵路服務(wù)業(yè)務(wù)也表示出濃厚興趣。
GE is accelerating its efforts to sell the bulk of the $500 billion in assets held by its GE Capital financial services unit. Based in Chicago, GE Capital Rail Services leases and manages boxcars, tank wagons and other railroad freight equipment in North America.
通用公司努力加速售出由通用電氣資本金融服務(wù)集團(tuán)持有的價(jià)值5000億美元的大部分資產(chǎn),包括位于芝加哥的通用資本鐵路服務(wù)租賃和管理北美的運(yùn)貨車箱、有軌車和其他鐵路貨運(yùn)設(shè)備
SMFG, Japan’s second-largest lender by market value after Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., has been expanding in leasing. It acquired an aircraft-leasing unit of Royal Bank of Scotland Group for $7.3 billion in 2012 and bought Chicago-based railroad leasing firm Flagship Rail Services from Perella Weinberg Partners LP for roughly $500 million in 2013. The latter is now called SMBC Rail Services.
三井住友金融集團(tuán)作為位于三菱日聯(lián)金融集團(tuán)之后、日本市值第二大的貸款機(jī)構(gòu)，業(yè)務(wù)擴(kuò)展到租賃領(lǐng)域。三井住友金融集團(tuán)于2012年以73億美元收購(gòu)蘇格蘭皇家銀行的飛機(jī)租賃業(yè)務(wù)，于2013年以5億美元收購(gòu)佩雷拉溫伯格合伙公司位于芝加哥的鐵路租賃公司——旗艦鐵路服務(wù)公司。目前后者改稱為三井住友銀行鐵路服務(wù)公司。
People familiar with SMFG’s thinking said the bank sees rail leasing as a higher-margin business that can supplement its lower-margin core lending business at home. It could also help SMFG make contacts among U.S. businesses that wouldn’t otherwise be acquainted with the Japanese bank.
據(jù)了解三井住友思路的人士表示，該銀行認(rèn)為鐵路租賃作為高利潤(rùn)的業(yè)務(wù)是日本國(guó)內(nèi)低利潤(rùn)的核心貸款業(yè)務(wù)的補(bǔ)充。該業(yè)務(wù)還可以幫助三井住友與日本銀行不熟悉的美國(guó)企業(yè)建立聯(lián)系。