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The sale of the assets would be also be a step in unwinding the bank's partial acquisition 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.

People familiar with the matter do not expect the deal with HSBC to be affected by the ABN Amro China investigation.

It was an important step by ABN Amro Group towards the legal merger of Fortis Bank and ABN Amro Bank by the second half of this year.

The Dutch state-owned ABN Amro Bank said Friday that it had completed its legal separation from the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The ABN Amro China spokeswoman declined to give further details about the potential irregularities, citing the bank's ongoing investigation.

Up until 2004 Mr Groenink had tried to turn ABN Amro into a top global bank. Then he scaled back to the group's core businesses.

But far from being the next Royal Bank of Scotland-ABN AMRO, or even Time Warner-AOL, the deal looks reasonable in many respects.

The make-up of the consortium that claimed victory this week in the battle for ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, sounds like the stuff of weak jokes.

The scale and nature of the potential problems at ABN Amro China still remain unclear.

Royal Bank of Scotland bid for ABN Amro at the peak of the credit boom and had to be rescued by the state.

ABN AMRO, named this June by the Financial Times as the Sustainable Bank of the Year, created a virtual network called Eco Markets.

The Dutch Supreme Court must decide, probably next month, whether the sale can go ahead without a vote by ABN amRO shareholders.

The Eco Index itself grew out of ABN AMRO's increasing concern about climate change, says Suellen Lazarus, a senior advisor at ABN-AMRO.

Some investment banks, including ABN Amro, raised their target price for shares in the company.

When RBS accountants got their hands on ABN Amro's books they were confronted by a string of unpleasant surprises.

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Darling said yesterday, RBS acquisition of ABN AMRO Bank is the "catastrophic" for.

Deutsche Bank reached a deal to acquire part of ABN Amro Holding NV's commercial-banking activities in the Netherlands from Fortis in July.

The Asean 3 Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro) does not sound like a revolutionary organisation.

Banker friends (I still have a few) say that RBS was uniquely reckless in its bid for ABN Amro.

Shareholders were furious, agreeing that Sir Fred should complete the integration of ABN Amro but be replaced shortly afterwards.

Dutch bank ABN Amro this weekend opened a virtual branch alongside commercial operations by the likes of IBM and Toyota.

Some advisers pressed Sir Fred to lower his offer but he told the board that any changes would trigger lawsuits from ABN Amro shareholders.

and to Santander for emerging from the ABN AMRO transaction, which killed off RBS and Fortis, with a big presence in Brazil at a fair price.

The pressures were building in 2007 when he embarked on his fatal mistake: the takeover of ABN Amro.

In 2007 it tried to buy ABN AMRO, which would have made it one of the world's largest universal banks.

ABN Amro has been disappointing shareholders for years and contriving to hide the real costs of its underpowered global banking operations.

ABN AMRO, an arm of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, arranged an event at which its high-worth clients could hear a variety of views.

The bank most in need of extra capital is Royal Bank of Scotland, which rashly bought ABN Amro at the top of the market last year.

Ideally, RBS would like LaSalle for itself, as well as ABN AMRO's global wholesale and markets business.

The move will see RBS take control of ABN Amro's wholesale banking division as well as its operations in Asia.

Before joining Singapore-based Blackhorse, Duncan was head of investment strategy at ABN Amro Asset Management.

In November 2007, RBS and its partners, Fortis and Banco Santander, completed their acquisition of Dutch bank ABN Amro.

Several other foreign banks, including ABN Amro, are expected to soon apply for local incorporation.

Two other ABN Amro workers have been put under house arrest while the police continue their inquiries.

ABN Amro yesterday confirmed it was selling LaSalle, its US banking operation, to Bank of America for $21bn in cash.

JPMorgan Chase and Royal Bank of Scotland are set to shed jobs at Bear Stearns and ABN AMRO's wholesale arm respectively.

What is worse, ABN Amro, now a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland, then insured much of the issued securities.

Moreover it has a much-enhanced physical presence as a result of the ABN Amro takeover, which gave it 18 additional branches in China.

Meanwhile, ABN Amro, has opened a training academy in Shanghai to polish up raw recruits in basic retail skills.

Otherwise, the Seller has to send all the negotiating documents to ABN AMRO Bank, Shanghai for discounting.

The bonds mark the first time ABN AMRO opened up its retail distribution network to an outside issuer for this type of product.

RBS's regional retail banking platform vastly expanded after the 2007 acquisition of the Asian operations of ABN Amro.

The most recent event was ABN Amro's decision in July to sell its domestic fund management business in Taiwan to ING.

ACA Capital, which selected the securities, lost $900m and later failed (with ABN-Amro assuming liability).

It may also surprise observers who point out that the takeover of ABN Amro, the Dutch lender, has given RBS a wholly owned network in China.

But the 28-year-old management trainee at the Dutch bank ABN Amro says he's had no problem fitting in.

for this flurry of activity was a letter written on February 20th by TCI, a hedge fund holding 1% of the bank's shares, to ABN Amro.

Barclays announced the arrangement this week as part of its revised ? 8bn ($93. 2bn) cash-and-shares offer for Dutch rival ABN Amro.

ABN Amro China declined to comment on the scale of the potential losses.

ABN Amro had been mismanaged for years.

Two others have been auctioned off to ABN Amro and Chinatrust.

Fortis would take over ABN amRO's commercial and retail business in the Netherlands.

On May 18th protesters in the district of Baba Amro held up crosses as they marched through.

She is a Financial Management Accountant with international banking company ABN Amro in its London office.

The FSA has supposedly thrown up obstacles because of the scars left by Royal Bank of Scotland's disastrous takeover of ABN Amro.

ABN Amro has one of the biggest foreign banking franchises in China, operating 18 retail banking outlets in the country.

In 2007 they joined forces again to break up ABN Amro.

On cue, ABN Amro announced last week that it would cut back its investment banking in America.

Other banks, such as ABN Amro and Citigroup, have also boosted their investments and expertise in fields such as renewable energy.

This made it easier to agree the deal but also meant that RBS was left with ABN Amro's troubled investment banking division.

ABN-AMRO sold about 150 million euro of World Bank Eco 3Plus bonds within a month of their launch September 17.

ABN AMRO Bank launched its branch in Beijing's .

To be sure, banks such as ABN Amro have good reason to offer a rosy outlook: More investments can mean more business for them.

Analysts at ABN Amro, a Dutch bank, have estimated that a World Cup victory adds 0. 7% to the winner's GDP, mostly through extra demand.

Joep Gorgels, a senior transport banker for ABN Amro, said part of the solution to the funding shortfall had been to involve Asian banks.

Last year, the award for Sustainable Bank of the Year went to HSBC, while Banco ABN Amro Real of Brazil took the emerging markets title.

Barclays and ABN Amro will almost certainly not be the last international banks with Communist party officials on their boards of directors

The 19 per cent hike is the second-biggest price jump in 25 years, according to ABN Amro. It follows a record 71. 5 per cent rise in 2005.

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