"It's a chicken-and-egg situation, " says Chulakorn Singhakowin, president of Bangkok-based Bank of Asia, which ABN-Amro took over.
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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.
Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
ABN-Amro, Banque Nationale de Paris, Bank of America, Citibank, and American Express that dominate trading in the New Taiwan dollar, and especially in currency derivatives.
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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It has been criticised for over-stretching itself in the takeover of ABN Amro 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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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.
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.
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.
Sir Tom admitted to MPs that his bank's much-criticised purchase of Dutch rival ABN Amro had been a "big mistake".
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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