It has been criticised for over-stretching itself in the takeover of ABN Amro bank in 2007.
Swapping weapons for chocolates and charm, Flomenbaum became a frequent customer at ABN Amro bank in Antwerp.
Not only was the 6.75% bond offering managed by ABN Amro Bank N.
Christopher Wood, strategist for the ABN Amro Asia bank in Hong Kong, believes so.
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.
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.
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.
Its clients include government bodies in the Netherlands and abroad, and big companies including IBM, a computer giant, and ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank.
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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Consob also ruled that Lodi must now make a cash offer (it had wanted to pay in shares and bonds), boosting the chances of a rival bid from ABN Amro , a Dutch bank.
Not on your nellie, say Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton from London Business School (LBS), in an annual study of global investment returns sponsored by ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, that was published last week.
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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The first was the government's handling of the bizarre affair of Italy's central-bank governor, Antonio Fazio, who is accused of favouring a takeover bid by Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI) for Antonveneta, a larger Italian bank, over a rival bid from a Dutch bank, ABN Amro.
The battle for Antonveneta started about seven months ago when ABN Amro launched a bid for the bank.
Unlike in the U.S., where the Glass-Steagall Act severely limits the ability of banks to engage in securities underwriting, European giants such as ABN Amro and Germany's Deutsche Bank can do everything from issue corporate bonds to sit on the board of directors.
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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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.
"It's a chicken-and-egg situation, " says Chulakorn Singhakowin, president of Bangkok-based Bank of Asia, which ABN-Amro took over.
But there's a catch: the RBS bid depends on LaSalle Bank , the American subsidiary that's just been promised to Bank of America, staying within ABN Amro.
"Despite the recent rise in equity markets, we believe an enormous gap exists between the apparent bullish consensus on equities and effective low positioning in equity markets, " Didier Duret, chief investment officer for the private bank of Dutch financial services giant ABN Amro, told clients last week.
Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
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 bank is 8.6% owned by ABN Amro, which on Tuesday confirmed that it was in talks with Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ) about being purchased.
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".
As the suitors of ABN Amro sit back and wait for the results of legal disputes on their bids, the Dutch bank may start worring about losing key employees who don't want to wait around to see what their jobs will look like under new ownership.
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.
Royal Bank of Scotland received enthusiastic encouragement from its institutional shareholders for its acquisition of bits of ABN AMRO.
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