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????上周，我接到了鮑勃?阿普菲爾從倫敦打來的電話，他是我在布魯克林的鄰居（也是歐柏林大學校友）。 ????阿普菲爾首先說道，“兩周前，我完成了希臘債務重組交易。” ????這聽起來相當震撼，但并非完全出乎我所料。畢竟，阿普菲爾經營著一家名為債券持有者通信集團（Bondholder Communications Group）的公司，其業務恰恰涉及此事。 ????不過這并不是阿普菲爾來電的真正原因。他其實想談談其團隊為了完成希臘債務重組，所設計出的計算機網絡。 ????也許你還記得，希臘政府在今年初曾面臨破產危機，無法償還票面總值超過2700億美元的債務。在一系列復雜的重組交易中，希臘財政部提議僅償還債券票面價值的一小部分。 ????不過，債權人人數眾多，數目約為10萬人，這些人分別在全球各地——從俄羅斯到南非再到哈薩克斯坦都有。要讓他們在如此緊張的時限內簽署完相關文件基本是“不可能的任務”。 ????阿普菲爾說，“我想做一些與眾不同的事，所以我購入了100部iPad?！?/p> ????安裝有定制的債務重組應用的蘋果平板電腦被分發給領導團隊，其成員包括來自希臘財政部、希臘交易所（相當于希臘的紐約證券交易所）、希臘銀行（相當于希臘的美國聯邦儲備委員會）及三家負責重組的外國銀行——德意志銀行（Deutsche Bank）、匯豐銀行（HSBC）、瑞德集團（Lazard）——的代表。其想法是使參與者獲得一整套分析工具，并能實時、安全的連接到全球清算系統以及全球各地銀行的交易清算室。 ????阿普菲爾表示：“從準備到執行階段，金融領導團隊的成員有將近一半時間花在路上，與來自歐盟及三巨頭其他地方的投資者或金融監管官員會面。顯然有必要創建一個能跟進投資家的金融決策平臺，而不是毫無作為?！?/p> |
????I got a London call last week from Bob Apfel, a Brooklyn neighbor (and fellow Oberlin College graduate). ????"Two weeks ago," he began. "I completed the debt restructuring of Greece." ????It was pretty bold statement, but not entirely out of character. After all, Apfel runs a company called Bondholder Communications Group that does this kind of thing. ????But that wasn't the real reason for his call. He wanted to talk about the computer network his team had created to get the job done. ????Greece, as you may recall, was facing bankruptcy this spring, unable to make good on debts worth, on paper, more than $270 billion. In a series of complex restructuring transactions, the country's Finance Ministry had offered to settle for a fraction of the bonds' paper value. ????But getting roughly 100,000 bondholders scattered around the globe -- from Russia to South Africa to Kazakhstan -- to sign off on the deal on a tight deadline was going to be a logistical nightmare. ????"I wanted to do something different," Apfel says. "So I bought 100 iPads." ????The Apple (AAPL) tablets, equipped with a custom-made debt-restructuring app, were handed out to the leadership team, including representatives from the Finance Ministry, the Hellenic Exchange (the Greek equivalent of the NYSE), the Bank of Greece (their version of the Federal Reserve) and the three external banks that managed the deal, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Lazard. ????The idea was to give the participants a rich set of analytic tools and real-time, secure connections to both the global clearing systems and the back offices of banks around the world. ????"During the lead-up to the launch," says Apfel, "members of the financial leadership team were spending over half their time on the road, meeting with investors or financial overseers from the EU and other parts of the troika. There was a palpable need to create a financial decision-makers' platform that could follow the financier – not vice versa." |
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