Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Eyes GE’s U.S. Rail-Leasing Business
三井住友锁定美国通用电气铁路租赁业务
----GE Capital Rail Services could be worth around $4 billion
----通用资本铁路服务业务价值约40亿美元
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. is interested in General Electric Co.’s U.S. railway-leasing business, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest example of Japanese financial institutions looking for big purchases in the U.S.
三井住友金融集团对美国通用电气铁路租赁业务表现出浓厚兴趣，据知情人士透露，这是日本金融集团在美国寻求大宗收购的最新案例。
GE Capital Rail Services, which could be worth around $4 billion, also has drawn interest from Wells Fargo and other U.S. financial institutions, the people said.
该人士称，美国富国银行和其他美国金融机构对价值40亿美元通用资本铁路服务业务也表示出浓厚兴趣。
GE is accelerating its efforts to sell the bulk of the $500 billion in assets held by its GE Capital financial services unit. Based in Chicago, GE Capital Rail Services leases and manages boxcars, tank wagons and other railroad freight equipment in North America.
通用公司努力加速售出由通用电气资本金融服务集团持有的价值5000亿美元的大部分资产,包括位于芝加哥的通用资本铁路服务租赁和管理北美的运货车箱、有轨车和其他铁路货运设备
SMFG, Japan’s second-largest lender by market value after Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., has been expanding in leasing. It acquired an aircraft-leasing unit of Royal Bank of Scotland Group for $7.3 billion in 2012 and bought Chicago-based railroad leasing firm Flagship Rail Services from Perella Weinberg Partners LP for roughly $500 million in 2013. The latter is now called SMBC Rail Services.
三井住友金融集团作为位于三菱日联金融集团之后、日本市值第二大的贷款机构，业务扩展到租赁领域。三井住友金融集团于2012年以73亿美元收购苏格兰皇家银行的飞机租赁业务，于2013年以5亿美元收购佩雷拉温伯格合伙公司位于芝加哥的铁路租赁公司——旗舰铁路服务公司。目前后者改称为三井住友银行铁路服务公司。
People familiar with SMFG’s thinking said the bank sees rail leasing as a higher-margin business that can supplement its lower-margin core lending business at home. It could also help SMFG make contacts among U.S. businesses that wouldn’t otherwise be acquainted with the Japanese bank.
据了解三井住友思路的人士表示，该银行认为铁路租赁作为高利润的业务是日本国内低利润的核心贷款业务的补充。该业务还可以帮助三井住友与日本银行不熟悉的美国企业建立联系。