HSBC’nin Denizbanhk’az olan
ilgisi kısa sürdü. Sky News’in haberine göre, HSBC Denizbank’ı almaktan
vazgeçti. Ancak aynı haberde bu durumun ardından bankanın Finansbank’a odaklanmasının
beklendiğini yazıldı. Haberin orjinali için haberin devamını tıklayın.
HSBC has dealt another blow to
the stricken Eurozone bank Dexia by withdrawing a proposal to buy its Turkish
arm in a multi-billion pound deal, I have learned. The London-based lender is
understood to have informed the Turkish financial regulator in recent days that
it does not intend to proceed with an offer for DenizBank, one of Turkey’s
biggest retail banking operations. Sources close to the auction say that
DenizBank had not been willing to provide HSBC with sufficiently detailed
information about itself to enable it to make an offer. HSBC declined to
comment. The UK bank’s withdrawal from the auction leaves Qatar National Bank
as the likely frontrunner to acquire DenizBank. Sberbank, a Russian bank,
dropped out of the bidding in November. Precision Capital, which is owned by
members of the Qatari royal family, agree a deal in December to buy most of
Dexia’s Luxembourg operations in a deal worth nearly $1bn. Qatar’s involvement
in the break-up of Dexia underlines the fact that much of the capital required
to recapitalise Europe’s strife-torn banking sector is being sourced from the
cash-rich Middle East. Dexia, the Franco-Belgian bank, was rescued by taxpayers
last year after running into funding difficulties. HSBC’s withdrawal from the
Denizbank auction is likely to mean that it focuses in the medium term on a
possible offer for FinansBank, another large Turkish retail bank, and which has
its own link to the Eurozone crisis: it is owned by the National Bank of
Greece. Turkey has been identified as a core growth market for HSBC by Stuart
Gulliver, who took over as its chief executive last year.
