双语新闻：渣打被批反洗钱不力香港金管局连夜回应

2014-08-25 17:00:29来源：可可英语

　　The midnight oil was burning Wednesday at theHong Kong Monetary Authority--courtesy of itscolleagues at the New York State Department ofFinancial Services, which announced a $300 millionfine and new anti-money-laundering controls on UKbank Standard Chartered PLC .

　　纽约州金融服务部周二宣布，渣打集团有限公司(StandardChartered PLC, 简称：渣打集团)将向该局支付3亿美元罚金，并采取措施纠正反洗钱程序中的漏洞。香港金融管理局(Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 简称：香港金管局)挑灯夜战，在周三凌晨发表声明做出回应。

　　What's that got to do with Hong Kong? The new settlement--the second set of penaltiesleveled by the New York regulator against Standard Chartered in two years--requires StandardChartered to suspend U.S. dollar-clearing through its U.S. bank for what NYDFS calls 'high-riskretail business clients' of its Hong Kong branch.

　　这对香港有怎样的影响呢?根据新的和解协议，纽约州监管金融服务部要求渣打纽约分行暂时终止为渣打银行(香港)有限公司(简称：渣打香港)的部分小型企业客户提供美元结算服务。纽约州监管金融服务部将渣打香港的这类客户称为“高风险零售业务客户”。这是该监管机构两年内第二次对渣打采取惩罚措施。

　　Dollar clearing involves the conversion of payments on behalf of clients into U.S. dollars from aforeign currency, and is used in many types of transactions a bank might perform on behalf ofits clients. A person familiar with the matter said that there is no set list of targeted Hong Kongfirms, and that instead both sides have agreed on selection criteria for categories ofproblematic companies.

　　美元结算服务涉及代表企业客户把一种外币兑换成美元的支付服务，银行代表客户开展的许多交易类型都会用到美元结算服务。据一名知情人士透露，和解协议中没有目标香港企业客户的具体名单，不过关于哪些企业客户将被归为问题公司，双方在选择标准上达成了一致。

　　Put on the spot by this singling out of Hong Kong as a point of origin for dodgy transactions,HKMA emailed out two statements in the wee hours of the morning--the first at 1:55 AM HongKong time, and a supplementary statement at 2:51 AM--that read as the written equivalentof a shrug.

　　美国方面把香港视为可疑交易的源头，这让香港感到尴尬。香港金管局在凌晨时分通过电子邮件发表了两份声明(第一份是香港时间凌晨1:55发布的，凌晨2:51又发布了补充声明)，从声明措辞来看，香港金管局对纽约州监管部门的这一做法表示失望。

　　In the first statement, HKMA wrote that while it had 'identified some areas for improvement,'in anti-money-laundering controls at Standard Chartered's Hong Kong branch, 'they are notissues that cause significant supervisory concerns.'

　　在第一份声明中，香港金管局写道，虽然发现渣打香港的反洗钱管控措施存在一些有待改善之处，但并不构成重大监管关注。

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