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The European Commission obliged the Royal Bank of Scotland to sell Worldpay in 2010, as a condition of RBS's bail-out by the British state after the financial crisis.
歐盟委員會(huì)(European Commission)要求蘇格蘭皇家銀行(Royal Bank of Scotland)在2010年出售Worldpay，作為蘇格蘭皇家銀行在金融危機(jī)后對(duì)英國(guó)政府的救助條件。
Two private-equity firms bought it for 2bn pounds.
兩家私募股權(quán)公司買了20億英鎊。
It was floated at a value of 4.8bn pounds in 2015.
2015年浮動(dòng)的價(jià)值達(dá)到48億英鎊。
Mr Khwaja says that by buying Worldpay, Vantiv will reduce its reliance on bricks-and-mortar merchants, which are losing out from a shift of retailing to online competitors such as Amazon.
Khwaja稱通過購(gòu)買Worldpay，Vantiv將減少對(duì)實(shí)體商家的依賴，這使得從零售商轉(zhuǎn)向亞馬遜等在線競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手。
Less than 10% of its revenue comes from processing e-commerce payments.
不到10%的收入來(lái)自于運(yùn)營(yíng)電子商務(wù)支付。
Worldpay, by contrast, makes more than one-third of its revenue from a fast-growing, global e-commerce business.
相比之下，WorldPay超過1/3的收入是來(lái)自于一個(gè)快速增長(zhǎng)的全球電子商務(wù)業(yè)務(wù)。
It is also the market leader in Britain, claiming a share of 42%, and has an American business of its own (the country's eighth-biggest, one-sixth of the size of Vantiv's, says the Nilson Report).
它也是英國(guó)的市場(chǎng)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，取得了42%的市場(chǎng)份額，且具有自己的美國(guó)企業(yè)（根據(jù)尼爾森報(bào)告，是全國(guó)第八大，Vantiv規(guī)模的六分之一大小）。
The deal marks a further step towards the industry's consolidation.
這一項(xiàng)交易意味著更進(jìn)一步的行業(yè)整合。
Last year, for example, Global Payments, the sixth-biggest American acquirer, bought Heartland, a smaller rival, for $4.3bn in cash and shares.
就拿去年的一個(gè)例子來(lái)說(shuō)吧，美國(guó)第六大收購(gòu)平臺(tái)——“全球支付”，收購(gòu)了一家規(guī)模相對(duì)較小的“中心地帶”產(chǎn)業(yè)（該公司為“全球支付”的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手），折合現(xiàn)金股票43億美元。
TSYS bought TransFirst for $2.4bn. Vantiv snaffled Moneris USA, the American arm of a Canadian payments-processor, for $425m.
TSYS信息發(fā)布系統(tǒng)的機(jī)構(gòu)出資24億美元收購(gòu)了TransFirst安全支付產(chǎn)業(yè)；美國(guó)支付處理服務(wù)商Vantiv宣布以4.25億美金收購(gòu)加拿大收單機(jī)構(gòu)Moneris為美國(guó)子公司。
In Europe, Mr Khwaja notes, national markets tend to be ruled by local players, despite the EU's supposedly single market.
赫瓦賈先生指出，就歐洲目前的形勢(shì)來(lái)看，盡管歐盟大致陷于單一的市場(chǎng)狀態(tài)，然而各歐盟成員國(guó)市場(chǎng)往往還是由本國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)人員在背后掌控和把握。
Cross-border consolidation has far to go.
針對(duì)歐洲的狀態(tài)來(lái)看，跨境、國(guó)公司兼并還有很長(zhǎng)的路要走。
But in a business of thin margins, scale is starting to count.
但是在當(dāng)今各行業(yè)利潤(rùn)微薄的情況下，并購(gòu)浪潮逐漸擴(kuò)大。
Worldline, descended from the acquiring subsidiaries of three French banks, has spread into the Benelux countries and Germany.
Worldline集團(tuán)來(lái)自三家法國(guó)銀行子公司的合并，而且Worldline公司的兼并浪潮已經(jīng)蔓延到了比荷盧及德國(guó)等國(guó)家。
On July 3rd Nets, a Nordic payments company, said it had been approached about a takeover.
7月3日，一家北歐支付公司通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)媒體表示近期已經(jīng)就公司的收購(gòu)事宜進(jìn)行了接洽。
It's an acquisitive business.
當(dāng)今全球的收購(gòu)兼并浪潮就是一次次貪婪的交易。
譯文來(lái)源考研英語(yǔ)時(shí)事閱讀
