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Payments: Acquirer acquired
支付：收购者被收购
An American payments firm goes online and buys British.
一家美国支付公司在线购买英国货。
A Bidding war was briefly but eagerly anticipated. In the end, not a shot was fired.
一场短暂而急切参与的收购战，最后，没响一枪就结束了。
On July 4th the share price of Worldpay, a British payments processor, leapt by 28% after the company said it had received preliminary approaches from JPMorgan Chase, America's biggest bank, and Vantiv, an American payments firm.
7月4日，英国一家支付运营公司WorldPay，在声明已从美国最大的银行摩根大通和一家支付公司Vantiv获得了初步的方案后，其股票价格猛涨了28%。
The next day Worldpay said it had accepted a cash-and-shares bid from Vantiv, worth 7.7bn pounds ($10bn) , giving its shareholders 41% of the combined group.
第二天，WorldPay公司表示已经接受了Vantiv公司的现金和股票收购，价值为7.7bn 英镑（100亿美元），给予其股东联合团队价值的41%。

JPMorgan Chase, sniffily explaining that it had considered a bid after an “invitation” from Worldpay, which is a client, declined to proceed.
摩根大通，不屑一顾地解释道他们考虑投标是因为他们的客户------Worldpay公司的“邀请”，现已经拒绝继续了。
Under Britain's takeover code that refusal rules out a counter bid for six months.
根据英国的收购法规，摩根大通的拒绝限制了六个月的还价。
The shares slipped back by nearly 9%.
WorldPay公司的股票下跌了近9%。
Vantiv and Worldpay are “merchant acquirers” : companies that have contracts with sellers of goods and services, and licences from credit- and debit-card companies, to accept and process card payments.
Vantiv和WorldPay都是“商户”：与提供产品和服务的卖方有着合同的公司，有着信用和借记卡许可证的公司，接受和处理信用卡支付。
They also provide insurance—for example, refunding disappointed holidaymakers when an airline goes bust.
他们也提供保险-----比如一家航空公司破产了，他们要赔偿失望的度假者。
Until a few years ago, explains Ali Farid Khwaja of Autonomous, an investment-research firm, acquirers in both America and Europe had to have banking licences.
直到几年前，自治的Ali Farid Khwaja解释道，一家投资研究公司，要求在美国和欧洲的收购者都必须拥有营业执照。
As a consequence, banks still feature in lists of leading acquirers.
因此，银行仍在领先的收购方名单上。
According to the Nilson Report, a newsletter, they accounted for three of America's top seven last year: JPMorgan Chase ranked first, with Vantiv second.
根据一个时事通讯《尼尔森报告》，他们占据了美国去年前七名中的三名。摩根大通排名第一，Vantiv紧随其后。
Both Vantiv and Worldpay, indeed, emerged from banks.
事实上，Vantiv 和 Worldpay都来自银行。
Vantiv was spun off in 2009 by Fifth Third, an Ohio-based lender which still owns 17.9%.
Vantiv在2009年被总部在俄亥俄州的五三银行拆分后，仍然占据17.9%的股份。

译文来源考研英语时事阅读

重点讲解

1.declined to 拒绝

例句:Many students declined to be interviewed on tape.
许多学生谢绝录音采访。

2.spun off 分离

例句:The brakes locked and the car spun off the road.
刹车卡住了，汽车从路上飞了出去。

3.According to 通过

例句:Prices vary according to the quantity ordered.
价格随订购数量不同而有所变化。

4.As a consequence 因此

例句:I regret to inform you he died as a consequence of his injuries.
我很遗憾地通知你，他因伤势太重不治身亡。