Denizbank satış için masada olan Katar Ulusal Bankası'nın da
istenilen fiyat nedeniyle masadan kalkabileceği belirtiliyor. Bloomberg
Ajansı'nın Türkiye bürosundan Ercan Aksoy'un haberine göre Dexia'nın bankanın
2.1 milyar dolar olan defter değerinin 1,5 katı bir para talep ettiği, ancak
Katar Ulusal Bankası'nın 1 ve 1.2 kat teklif ettiği belirtiliyor. Ancak Bloomberg iki tarafın hâlâ anlaşma
ihtimali olduğunu da belirtti. Sermayesinin yüzde 99.84’ü Dexia’ya ait olan ve halka açıklık oranı yüzde 0.16 seviyesinde bulunan
Denizbank’ın hisseleri cuma günü yüzde 3.2 yükselerek 13 liraya çıktı.
Hissedeki yükseliş sonucunda bankanın piyasa değeri 9.3 milyar Haberin
orjinalini okumak için haberin devamını tıklayın.
Qatar National’s Talks to Buy
Dexia’s Denizbank Said to Stall Over Price
By Ercan Ersoy and Matthew Campbell - Feb 18,
2012 10:52 AM GMT+0200
Qatar National Bank SAQ (QNBK)’s
talks to acquire Denizbank AS (DENIZ),
the Turkish lender put up for sale by Dexia SA (DEXB), are stalled over price and
may collapse, people with knowledge of the process said.
Dexia, which is being broken up after the European
debt crisis reduced its ability to obtain funding, has reached out to other
potential buyers, one of the people said, declining to be identified because
the discussions are private.
The Franco-Belgian lender is seeking about 1.5 times
Denizbank’s book value of
$2.1 billion, while Doha-based QNB is prepared to pay between 1 and 1.2 times,
the people said. While the two sides may still reach an agreement, Dexia could
also decide to end the process and begin a new search for a buyer at a later
date, they said.
Denizbank shares have surged more than 50 percent
since early October, following reports Dexia would sell its majority stake in
the bank under its rescue plan. The lender is valued at about 9.3 billion liras
($5.3 billion), according to the share price, which rose 3.2 percent to 13
liras in Istanbul yesterday. Less than 0.2 percent of the shares are traded,
with the remainder owned by
Dexia, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
A spokesman for Dexia, based in both Paris and
Brussels, declined to comment. A spokesman for QNB could not immediately be
reached for comment. While QNB is in talks with Dexia, Denizbank will “cost us
a lot” and the bank won’t distribute “more profit than necessary” for the deal,
chairman Yousef Hussain Kamal told shareholders Jan. 29.
Raising Cash
European banks are seeking to sell assets, portfolios
and units to raise cash amid the region’s debt crisis and to meet tougher capital requirements. Lenders including
Deutsche Bank AG andFrance’s Societe Generale SA have announced
plans to shed more than $1 trillion in assets, according to Bloomberg data.
QNB, the Persian Gulf country’s largest lender, was
the last serious buyer for Denizbank after earlier bidders including HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and OAO Sberbank (SBER) dropped out,
people familiar with the situation said in January. A month earlier, Banco Comercial Portugues SA (BCP) opted
to keep its Polish unit. Both Denizbank and BCP’s Warsaw-based unit were
examples of profitable businesses in attractive markets that lost bidders,
people familiar with the discussions said in December.
The European Banking Authority told the region’s banks
to raise 114.7 billion euros ($151 billion) in fresh capital in December to
respond to the sharp fall in the value of securities issued by euro-area
governments. The agency also required banks to keep a core Tier-1 capital ratio
of 9 percent and hold additional reserves, called a sovereign buffer, to
protect against default on debt tied to weaker euro-area economies.
Dexia put Denizbank up for sale as part of a rescue
plan undertaken by the French and Belgian governments. The firm is putting its
most troubled assets into a so-called bad bank and trying to sell profitable
units, including Denizbank, to raise cash.
