Among other Dutch companies that offer option incentive plans are: ING Group, and ABN-Amro.
"It's a chicken-and-egg situation, " says Chulakorn Singhakowin, president of Bangkok-based Bank of Asia, which ABN-Amro took over.
SEEDS.nl is a project of Dutch bank ABN-AMRO, one of the few banks to jump into crowdfunding with both feet.
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"Both Singapore and Hong Kong are trying to develop their debt markets, " says Sergio Rial, Asia-Pacific CEO for Dutch banking giant ABN-Amro.
ABN-Amro reckons that fair value for American equities is 22 times earnings, compared with 17 for British shares and 19 for the euro-area.
"There are unmistakable signs that the Malaysian economy is recovering, " says Patrick Tan, senior investment analyst for ABN-Amro Asia Equity Research in Kuala Lumpur.
You could, but only a few big ones--namely, ABN Amro, Banco Santander and HSBC--have a sizable presence in Brazil.
But there's a catch: the RBS bid depends on LaSalle Bank , the American subsidiary that's just been promised to Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ), staying within ABN Amro (nyse: ABN - news - people ).
Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
Traders pushed up shares in Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ) on Monday as its bid for ABN Amro (nyse: ABN - news - people ) started too look less likely, thanks to some agitatation by a U.S. hedge fund.
Much of that was inherited with the calamitous take-over of ABN Amro.
Through a smart bit of asset flipping, it was the only bank that profited from the ill-fated takeover of ABN Amro, a Dutch bank, in 2007.
To help rebuild its assets, UBP bought over the past two years the Swiss arm of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, and Paris-based hedge fund Nexar Capital Group.
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And a number of other things went wrong with the bank, including its ill-conceived takeover of ABN Amro, the world's largest banking merger at the time, and its expansion into American mortgage markets.
In early June Barclays was reportedly drawing up contingency plans to restructure its all-paper offer for ABN Amro with a "significant" sweetener, effectively reducing the shares it would issue for the Dutch bank and replacing them with cash. (See: "Barclays Gets Creative") All-share bids are less favorable than cash offers because their value can be volatile.
Sir Tom admitted to MPs that his bank's much-criticised purchase of Dutch rival ABN Amro had been a "big mistake".
We were able to source competitively-priced bank loans like our recently executed secured term loan facility with the Import-Export Bank of Korea and ABN AMRO.
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Venezuela faces two choices, says Jan Stuart , head of research for global energy futures at ABN Amro (nyse: ABN - news - people ).
"Given the expected change in ownership of ABN Amro (nyse: ABN - news - people ), this is an opportune moment for me to look at my future, " the departing CFO Hugh Scott-Barrett said in a statement.
"There should not be any unnecessary uncertainty about the carrying out of this agreement, into which the board of directors of ABN Amro (nyse: ABN - news - people ) was entitled to enter, " the ruling stated.
It has been criticised for over-stretching itself in the takeover of ABN Amro bank in 2007.
He then moved to ABN Amro North America to lead its private-banking operations.
He happened to play it extremely well, but vastly over-reached himself, particularly with the ABN Amro acquisition, and was most exposed when the music stopped.
The nationalisation comes after the European Commission blocked an earlier plan that would have seen the country's other large banks, Rabobank, ING and ABN Amro, contribute capital to a so-called "bad bank" to house SNS Reaal's distressed property assets.
With the central-bank governor's wings clipped and ABN Amro's success in sight, they ought to feel emboldened to take another look at Italy's fragmented banking sector.
It is probably worth pointing out at this juncture that Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister and proponent of Scottish independence, supported RBS's ill-judged takeover in 2007 of the bulk of ABN Amro, the deal which massively increased both RBS's size and precariousness.
In December Feigelson was wooed to ABN Amro as general counsel in charge of compliance, getting a double-digit raise and the green light to hire staff.
On January 19th Royal Bank of Scotland's shares collapsed as the British government raised its stake and the battered lender said it could report Britain's largest-ever corporate loss after an impairment charge on its takeover of ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank.
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On Friday, the Dutch Supreme Court announced its long-awaited ruling on the sale of LaSalle Bank, the U.S. subsidiary of ABN Amro, to Bank of America, saying the transaction did not require shareholder approval and could go ahead.
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