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GRE阅读双语练习:支付收购浪潮

2018-04-09 14:58:54来源:网络

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  Payments: Acquirer acquired

  支付:收购者被收购

  An American payments firm goes online and buysBritish.

  一家美国支付公司在线购买英国货。

  A Bidding war was briefly but eagerly anticipated. In the end, not a shot was fired.

  一场短暂而急切参与的收购战,最后,没响一枪就结束了。

  On July 4th the share price of Worldpay, a British payments processor, leapt by 28% after thecompany said it had received preliminary approaches from JPMorgan Chase, America's biggestbank, and Vantiv, an American payments firm.

  7月4日,英国一家支付运营公司WorldPay,在声明已从美国最大的银行摩根大通和一家支付公司Vantiv获得了初步的方案后,其股票价格猛涨了28%。

  The next day Worldpay said it had accepted a cash-and-shares bid from Vantiv, worth 7.7bnpounds ($10bn) , giving its shareholders 41% of the combined group.

  第二天,WorldPay公司表示已经接受了Vantiv公司的现金和股票收购,价值为7.7bn 英镑(100亿美元),给予其股东联合团队价值的41%。

  JPMorgan Chase, sniffily explaining that it had considered a bid after an “invitation” fromWorldpay, which is a client, declined to proceed.

  摩根大通,不屑一顾地解释道他们考虑投标是因为他们的客户------Worldpay公司的“邀请”,现已经拒绝继续了。

  Under Britain's takeover code that refusal rules out a counter bid for six months.

  根据英国的收购法规,摩根大通的拒绝限制了六个月的还价。

  The shares slipped back by nearly 9%.

  WorldPay公司的股票下跌了近9%。

  Vantiv and Worldpay are “merchant acquirers” : companies that have contracts with sellers ofgoods and services, and licences from credit- and debit-card companies, to accept and processcard payments.

  Vantiv和WorldPay都是“商户”:与提供产品和服务的卖方有着合同的公司,有着信用和借记卡许可证的公司,接受和处理信用卡支付。

  They also provide insurance—for example, refunding disappointed holidaymakers when anairline goes bust.

  他们也提供保险-----比如一家航空公司破产了,他们要赔偿失望的度假者。

  Until a few years ago, explains Ali Farid Khwaja of Autonomous, an investment-research firm, acquirers in both America and Europe had to have banking licences.

  直到几年前,自治的Ali Farid Khwaja解释道,一家投资研究公司,要求在美国和欧洲的收购者都必须拥有营业执照。

  As a consequence, banks still feature in lists of leading acquirers.

  因此,银行仍在领先的收购方名单上。

  According to the Nilson Report, a newsletter, they accounted for three of America's top sevenlast year: JPMorgan Chase ranked first, with Vantiv second.

  根据一个时事通讯《尼尔森报告》,他们占据了美国去年前七名中的三名。摩根大通排名第一,Vantiv紧随其后。

  Both Vantiv and Worldpay, indeed, emerged from banks.

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