It’s almost habit-forming. Every few years, the governments of Belgium, France and Luxembourg gather around a table to thrash out how to save a crippled regional financial services group. Fortis, Dexia and, following last month’s collapse, Dexia again. Initially, they made good progress, agreeing the sale of its Luxembourg private bank, its Belgian retail bank and its municipal lending arm. HSBC could buy its Turkish retail bank. Now the three-way charade appears to be boiling down to a dispute over government debt guarantees.
這幾乎已形成一種習(xí)慣。每隔幾年，比利時(shí)，法國(guó)和盧森堡三國(guó)政府就會(huì)聚集在桌邊，開會(huì)研討該如何拯救一個(gè)陷入困境的區(qū)域性金融服務(wù)集團(tuán)。先是富通(Fortis)，接下來是德克夏(Dexia)，繼上個(gè)月的突發(fā)危機(jī)后，又再次輪到德克夏。最初，他們進(jìn)展良好，同意出售該銀行在盧森堡的私人銀行業(yè)務(wù)、在比利時(shí)的零售銀行業(yè)務(wù)以及市政貸款業(yè)務(wù)。匯豐銀行(HSBC)則可以收購(gòu)其位于土耳其的零售銀行。但這個(gè)三方參與的游戲，似乎正糾結(jié)于一場(chǎng)有關(guān)政府債務(wù)擔(dān)保的糾紛。