德國銀行業歡迎中國投資
The head of BaFin, Germany’s financial watchdog, said he welcomed Chinese investment in the German banking sector, a week after it emerged that Chinese conglomerate HNA had become the biggest single investor in Deutsche Bank.
Chinese investors have spent billions of euros in Germany in the past few years, but have attracted increasing regulatory scrutiny of late, with the government last year stymieing a bid by a Chinese consortium for the chipmaker Aixtron on security grounds.
最近幾年，中國投資者已在德國投資數十億歐元，但最近招致監管部門越來越多的審查。去年，德國政府以安全爲由，否決了中國一財團對德國芯片製造商愛思強(Aixtron)的收購計劃。Speaking at BaFin’s annual press conference in Frankfurt, Felix Hufeld said he saw Chinese investment as a vote of confidence in Germany’s banking sector.
在德國聯邦金融監管局在法蘭克福的年度記者會上發表演講時，菲利克斯?胡費爾德(Felix Hufeld)表示，他認爲中國的投資是對德國銀行業投下的信任票。
“It is basically a positive story that capital finds it interesting to invest in German banks and of course [that includes] foreign capital, and of course [that includes] Chinese capital,” he said. “BaFin has no blacklist of which countries can in principle invest here.”
“這基本上是一個正面的故事，說明資本對投資德國銀行有興趣，當然（這包括）外國資本，當然（這包括）中國資本，”他表示，“德國聯邦金融監管局對於哪些國家原則上可以在我國投資沒有黑名單。”HNA disclosed last week that it had boosted its stake in Deutsche to 9.9 per cent, putting it ahead of US investment group BlackRock, which has a 5.9 per cent stake. The Qatari royal family holds between 8 and 10 per cent of Germany’s largest lender via two investment vehicles.
上週，海航披露，已將其在德意志銀行的持股比例增至9.9%，超過貝萊德(BlackRock)所持的5.9%持股。卡塔爾皇室家族通過兩個投資工具，持有這家德國最大銀行8%至10%的股權。C-Quadrat, the asset manager through which HNA bought its stake, has made clear that HNA has no intention of raising its stake beyond 10 per cent, the threshold above which BaFin has to approve stake purchases.
海航是通過資產管理公司C-Quadrat購入德意志銀行股份的。C-Quadrat明確表示，海航無意將其持股比例提高到10%以上；如果達到10%或以上，就必須得到德國聯邦金融監管局的批准。Asked whether BaFin scrutinised investments such as HNA’s that came close to, but did not breach the 10 per cent threshold, Mr Hufeld said BaFin could not change the levels at which it was legally allowed to rule on investments, but stressed that the watchdog was paying close attention to market developments.
在被問及德國聯邦金融監管局會否關注海航這樣接近，但沒有超過，10%持股門檻的投資時，胡費爾德表示，該局無法改變其依法被允許審批投資的門檻，但他強調，該局正密切關注市場動向。“We have carried out reviews very intensively in a series of cases. We take the owner control process very seriously,” he said.
他表示：“我們在一系列個案中進行了非常深入的審查。我們非常認真地對待所有者控制過程。”“[The arrival of foreign capital] is a general process of internationalisation of the investor base which we are also seeing in other industries, but which in a regulated industry like banking or finance triggers certain reviews?.?.?.?We look at what is happening, we meet such people [who want to invest], we want to get an impression [of them], we want to know who we are dealing with.”
“（外資的到來）是投資者基礎國際化這一總體過程的一部分，我們在其他行業也看到了，但在銀行業或金融業等受到監管的行業，這會觸發某些評估……我們正關注情況的發展，我們見了一些人（他們希望投資），我們希望對（他們）有一個印象，我們希望知道我們在同誰打交道。”
