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Fiserv said it would acquire First Data in a deal it valued at $22bn, one of the biggest ever mergers in the financial-services-and-payments industry.
美國(guó)金融科技公司Fiserv表示，將以220億美元收購(gòu)“第一資訊公司”，這是金融服務(wù)和支付行業(yè)有史以來(lái)規(guī)模最大的合并之一。
America’s big banks reported earnings for the fourth quarter. Despite a fall-off in bond and currency trading, net profit at JPMorgan Chase surged to $7.1bn. Bank of America’s quarterly profit of $7.3bn was another record for the bank. And having booked a charge of $22.6bn in the fourth quarter of 2017, Citigroup was able to please investors a year later by reporting a profit of $4.3bn.
美國(guó)的大型銀行紛紛公布了第四季度的收益。盡管債券和外匯交易出現(xiàn)下滑，但摩根大通(JPMorgan Chase)凈利潤(rùn)飆升至71億美元。美國(guó)銀行(Bank of America) 73億美元的季度利潤(rùn)再次創(chuàng)下紀(jì)錄。花旗集團(tuán)(Citigroup)在2017年第四季度計(jì)入了226億美元的支出，一年后公布了43億美元的利潤(rùn)，這讓投資者們喜上眉梢。
A row over pay prompted Santander to rescind its appointment of Andrea Orcel, the former head of ubs’s investment bank, as chief executive. The Spanish lender balked at fully compensating Mr Orcel for deferred pay, much of it in shares, accrued at the Swiss bank. The sum was reportedly 50m euros($57m).
一場(chǎng)圍繞薪酬的爭(zhēng)執(zhí)，促使桑坦德取消了對(duì)瑞銀投行部門(mén)前主管安德烈·奧塞爾(Andrea Orcel)的首席執(zhí)行官任命。這家西班牙銀行不愿全額補(bǔ)償奧塞爾的遞延支付薪酬，其中大部分為這家瑞銀投行積累的股票。據(jù)報(bào)道，補(bǔ)償?shù)慕痤~為5000萬(wàn)歐元(5700萬(wàn)美元)。
A true pioneer
真正的先驅(qū)
Tributes were paid to Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, who died at the age of 89. Mr Bogle revolutionised the investment industry in the 1970s by launching an index-tracking fund with super-low fees aimed at everyday investors. Some called him the Henry Ford of finance for bringing Wall Street to the masses. Vanguard is now the world’s second-largest investment firm with $4.9trn of assets under management. One of his best-known pieces of investment advice was: “Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”
人們向先鋒集團(tuán)創(chuàng)始人杰克·博格爾致敬，博格爾享年89歲。上世紀(jì)70年代，博格爾推出了一只超低收費(fèi)的指數(shù)跟蹤基金，主要面向普通投資者，從而徹底改變了投資行業(yè)。一些人稱(chēng)他為金融界的亨利·福特，因?yàn)樗麑⑷A爾街帶到大眾面前。先鋒集團(tuán)目前是全球第二大投資公司，管控著4.9萬(wàn)億美元的資產(chǎn)。他最著名的一條投資建議是:“時(shí)間是你的朋友；沖動(dòng)是你的敵人“。
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