【双语新闻】Japanese bank seeks China link

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Japanese bank seeks China link

　　按资产计算全球最大银行“三菱东京UFJ银行”（Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ）有意投资一家中国银行。这一迹象表明，在经历了10年的中断期后，实力得到增强的日本各金融机构正把目光转向海外。

　　Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ， the world‘s biggest bank by assets， is looking to invest in a Chinese bank in a sign that Japan’s stronger financial institutions are turning overseas after a decade-long hiatus.

　　如果三菱东京UFJ银行与中国某家银行联盟，那将成为两国间首宗重大的跨境银行结盟。三菱东京UFJ银行是三菱UFJ金融集团（Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group）的子公司，昨天投入运营，其资产达162.714兆日元（合1.395万亿美元）。

　　An alliance between the subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group， which began operations yesterday with assets of Y162，714bn （$1，395bn）， and a Chinese bank would be the first significant cross-border banking tie-up between the two countries.

　　“我们正把投资一家（中国）地方银行视为一项战略选择，但目前还未做出决定，”三菱UFJ金融集团的一名代表说。

　　“We are considering investing in a local [Chinese] bank as a strategic option， but nothing has been decided，” a representative of MUFG said.

　　三菱东京UFJ去年由日本四大银行的两家合并而来，它是日本财务状况较为健康的银行之一，其资本充足率在12%左右。

　　Formed from the merger last year of two of Japan‘s four biggest banks， Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is one of the healthier Japanese banks with a capital adequacy ratio of about 12 per cent.

　　该银行拒绝说明哪些银行是考虑对象。但日本媒体此前报道，三菱东京UFJ正与中国“四大”商业银行之一的中国银行（Bank of China）谈判。

　　The bank declined to name specific candidates. But Japanese media reported that the bank was in talks with Bank of China， one of China‘s “Big Four” commercial lenders.

　　预期中国银行今年将上市筹资80亿美元，而该行在这次上市之前，已从苏格兰皇家银行（Royal Bank of Scotland）为首的一个财团，以及新加坡国有投资企业淡马锡（Temasek）吸引了31亿美元投资。

　　BoC has attracted a $3.1bn investment from a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland， as well as from Temasek， the Singapore state investment company， ahead of its expected $8bn listing this year.

　　苏格兰皇家银行与其它外国银行近期已在中国进行了引人注目的投资，包括美国银行（Bank of America）、瑞银集团（UBS）和汇丰银行（HSBC），但日本的各家银行一直采取更为谨慎的态度。三菱UFJ金融集团仅与中国两家规模较小的银行建立了联盟。

　　While RBS and other foreign banks， including Bank of America， UBS and HSBC， have made headline-grabbing investments in China recently， Japanese banks have been more cautious. MUFG has set up alliances with only two smaller Chinese lenders.

　　90年代日本经济泡沫破灭后，日本大银行大部分被迫从海外投资中撤退。这不仅使它们资本不足，也使它们背负日本政府的债务，政府被迫出手救援这些银行。

　　Most of the leading Japanese banks were forced to retreat from investments overseas after the bursting of the country‘s economic bubble in the 1990s. This left them not only under-capitalised but also indebted to the Japanese government， which was forced to bail them out.

　　日本国内市场的放贷增长仍然缓慢，因此“中国是一个（实力得到增强的银行）无法忽略的市场，”银行业分析师野崎（Nozaki）先生说。

　　Lending growth in the domestic market is still sluggish， so “China is a market [the stronger banks] cannot ignore，” Mr Nozaki said.

　　王明（Mure Dickie）北京、刘励和（Justine Lau）香港补充报道。

　　Additional reporting by Mure Dickie in Beijing and Justine Lau in Hong Kong

　　译者/张征