渣打全面退出股票業務

Standard Chartered is pulling out of institutional equities globally in an abrupt move that underscores the bank’s efforts to cut costs and refocus its business, and is also axing another 2,000 jobs in its retail division.

渣打銀行(Standard Chartered)將在全球範圍內撤出機構股票經紀業務。這一突然之舉凸顯這家英國銀行削減成本和調整業務重心的努力。該銀行還計劃在零售部門再裁員2000人。

The UK lender said it would close its institutional cash equities and equity research businesses, and cease offering capital markets services such as initial public offerings, shedding around 200 jobs.

渣打表示，將關閉其機構現貨股票經紀和股票研究業務，並停止提供資本市場服務，例如首次公開發行(IPO)的承銷業務。這將導致裁員約200人。

The decision comes as investors have stepped up the pressure on the emerging markets-centred bank. StanChart’s UK-listed shares have fallen a quarter in the past year as investors worried that it had lost its way under Peter Sands, its embattled chief executive.

作爲一家高度依賴新興市場業務的銀行，渣打正受到來自投資者越來越大的壓力。過去一年，在英國上市的渣打股票價格下跌四分之一。投資者擔心，在陷入困境的行政總裁冼博德(Peter Sands)的領導下，這家銀行已迷失方向。

On Thursday the bank said it was on course to meet its target of $400m in cost savings this year and announced a further 2,000 job cuts in its retail division — on top of a previously announced 2,000. Together the reductions represent about 10 per cent of the unit’s headcount. Most of the fresh cuts would come from attrition, StanChart said.

渣打週四表示，該銀行本財年應該能完成節省4億美元的目標，還宣佈將在零售業務部門再裁員2000人。之前它已公佈裁員2000人。裁員總數約佔該銀行員工總數的10%。渣打表示，最新裁員大多屬於人員的自然損耗。

Exiting its equities business will produce about $100m in cost savings next year, it said.

該銀行表示，退出股票業務將讓它在下一財年削減約1億美元成本。

As of last weekend, senior staff had no idea any changes were afoot, according to people familiar with the situation.

知情人士稱，上週末，渣打高管還不知曉這些變動。

The business was loss-making, however, and the bank had made little progress in the closely watched industry league tables, ranking just 24th last year in terms of capital raised in Asia’s equity markets, according to Dealogic.

渣打股票業務處於虧損狀態，它在受到密切關注的行業排行榜上進步緩慢。根據Dealogic的數據，去年，在亞洲股票市場籌資規模排行榜上，渣打僅排在第24位。

About half of the equity division jobs to go are based in Hong Kong, with the rest spread across Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, India, plus the UK and the US — where its business was very small.

在被裁撤的股票部門中，約一半位於香港，其它分散在新加坡、印尼、韓國、印度、英國和美國。渣打在美國的業務規模非常小。

According to Dealogic, the only capital markets transaction StanChart had worked on in Europe was its own 2010 capital-raising.

根據Dealogic的數據，渣打在歐洲安排的唯一一筆資本市場交易，是渣打自己在2010年的融資交易。

The exit will free up the bank to focus more on its core commercial and trade finance businesses — and StanChart will still offer convertible bonds, equity derivatives and macro-economic and fixed income research in support of that, it said.

渣打表示，退出全球股票業務將能讓它騰出精力，更多關注其核心的商業和貿易融資業務。作爲對這些業務的支持，渣打仍將提供可轉換債券、股票衍生品和宏觀經濟以及固定收入研究服務。