中信澳元衍生品鉅虧案正式聆訊

It was HSBC that first proposed the derivatives that lost Citic $2bn in 2008 on mistimed Australian dollar bets, a tribunal has heard, as the Chinese conglomerate and five directors face a market misconduct hearing for not disclosing the losses sooner.

2008年中信泰富（Citic Pacific，現名“中信股份”(Citic Limited)）因時機不當的澳元衍生品投資損失了20億美元。香港市場失當行爲審裁處週一對此事進行聆訊，這家中國企業集團及其五名前董事因沒有及時披露損失而接受聆訊。聆訊瞭解到，該衍生品是由匯豐(HSBC)最初建議投資的。

Hong Kong-listed Citic was set up by Rong Yiren in 1978 at the behest of Deng Xiaoping, and has been dubbed the Red Hong. It has long been in the vanguard of China’s corporate development. Last year Citic’s mainland parent injected $37bn into it, in an early example of the push to reform state-owned enterprises.

香港上市的中信股份的母公司中信集團(Citic Group)，是由被稱爲“紅色資本家”的榮毅仁於1979年受鄧小平之託建立的。中信集團一直以來都是中國企業發展的排頭兵。去年中信集團向中信泰富注資370億美元之舉，成爲推動國有企業改革的較早範例。

It was Citic’s pioneer status that led it to invest in Australian iron ore in 2006, from which it has suffered cost blowouts, technical problems and expensive legal action involving Clive Palmer, an Australian mining magnate who was a partner in the project.

正是先驅者的這一身份，讓中信泰富在2006年投資了澳大利亞鐵礦石，並因此遭遇成本劇增、技術問題、以及與澳大利亞礦業巨頭克萊夫帕爾默(Clive Palmer)之間昂貴的法律訴訟。帕爾默是中信泰富該鐵礦石項目的合作夥伴。