It has been criticised for over-stretching itself in the takeover of ABN Amro bank in 2007.
The industry is in the midst of consolidation, says Paul Roger, analyst at ABN Amro.
Sorry, bondholders, ABN Amro said, but your securities were issued by an empty corporate shell.
So when DAF got into financial trouble, ABN Amro looked after its own interests first.
Christopher Wood, strategist for the ABN Amro Asia bank in Hong Kong, believes so.
"There aren't many good companies" to lend to, explains Jim Lam, ABN AMRO analyst in Shanghai.
Swapping weapons for chocolates and charm, Flomenbaum became a frequent customer at ABN Amro bank in Antwerp.
The battle for Antonveneta started about seven months ago when ABN Amro launched a bid for the bank.
"All the signs are pointing to lowered guidance, " says analyst Bill Shope, who follows Sun for ABN Amro.
Royal Bank of Scotland received enthusiastic encouragement from its institutional shareholders for its acquisition of bits of ABN AMRO.
Not only was the 6.75% bond offering managed by ABN Amro Bank N.
He then moved to ABN Amro North America to lead its private-banking operations.
You could, but only a few big ones--namely, ABN Amro, Banco Santander and HSBC--have a sizable presence in Brazil.
Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
Sir Tom admitted to MPs that his bank's much-criticised purchase of Dutch rival ABN Amro had been a "big mistake".
Similarly with the ABN Amro takeover: they simply did it at the top of the market and paid too much.
Cor Boonstra, the recently retired chairman of Philips Electronics, for example, sits on the boards of Ahold, Heineken and ABN Amro.
It swallowed up NatWest in Britain, Charter One in America and eventually led the consortium that bought ABN AMRO in 2007.
Barclays has just won an important battle in its bid for ABN Amro , though the war is by no means won.
"Malaysia deserves credit for restructuring and recapitalizing its banking sector, " says Christopher Wood, a strategist for ABN Amro Asia in Hong Kong.
And the reason is not because ABN AMRO has become philanthropic, following its brush with potential failure in the crisis years.
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Much of that was inherited with the calamitous take-over of ABN Amro.
In its monthly research report, ABN Amro and VM Group noted that strong prices and demand from emerging nations will encourage supply growth.
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Also, recently, ABN Amro said it could not settle its gold contracts with gold and that settlements would have to be made in cash.
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"In the near term the fortunes of the European equity market and the credit market are interlinked, " ABN Amro analyst Ian Richards told Forbes.com.
Its clients include government bodies in the Netherlands and abroad, and big companies including IBM, a computer giant, and ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank.
The Netherlands' ABN Amro bought Bank of America's retail operations in India, Singapore and Taiwan, expanded in Indonesia and acquired Bangkok-based Bank of Asia.
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.
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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This was initially recommended by the ABN Amro board, but they withdrew their support at the end of July to "ensure a level playing field".
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