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...Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Santander teamed up in 2007 to acquire ABN and break it up in an ill-judged €71bn takeover shortly before the financial crisis struck — the biggest ever for a bank — leaving...
...The lender’s Dutch business was bought by Fortis before the combined business was itself rescued by the Dutch government. ABN has done a lot better than RBS since returning to the market in 2015....
...Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Santander teamed up in 2007 to acquire ABN and break it up in an ill-judged €71bn hostile takeover bid shortly before the financial crisis struck — the biggest ever for...
...It raised €3.3bn in November 2015 from the first sale of shares in the bank, which was bailed out to the tune of €22bn in 2008 after a calamitous takeover by RBS, Santander and Fortis....
...It invested the most in the July flotation of Denmark’s Dong Energy, Dutch insurer ASR Nederland and lighting group Philips Lighting.Bonds performed best....
...After a €290m contribution from its own insurers, the settlement will cost Ageas, which emerged from the nationalised rump of Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis, about €1bn....
...The insurance company formed out of the rump of collapsed financial group Fortis will pay €1.2bn to the bank’s former shareholders, in one of the largest ever European securities settlements....
...of Scotland and Fortis....
...Other than the name, it shares little with the entity that RBS, Fortis and Santander bought in 2007 for €71bn, and which was subsequently bailed out by the Dutch government....
...The three-way acquisition saw RBS, Banco Santander and Fortis buy and then split up the Dutch bank, in a move that almost brought down both RBS and Fortis when the financial crisis struck....
...That followed the record €71bn hostile bid by RBS, Fortis and Santander to acquire ABN and break it up in 2007....
...In 2007, ABN ran into trouble after an ambitious overseas expansion and was acquired and dismembered by rivals Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Fortis....
...The Dutch bank caused problems for RBS and Fortis, which (along with Santander) teamed up to buy it for €71bn in 2007....
...The banks’ fortunes are rising with Belgium’s gradual recovery. French bank BNP Paribas (which took over Fortis) and Dutch group ING report higher lending....
...RBS, Fortis and Santander teamed up in 2007 to acquire ABN and break it up in an ill-judged €71bn hostile takeover bid shortly before the financial crisis struck — the biggest ever for a bank....
...When the financial crisis hit, the remaining Dutch rumps of ABN and Fortis had to be bailed out by the government at a cost of €28bn....
...ABN had to be saved by Dutch taxpayers following a €72bn three-way takeover by Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander and fellow Dutch bank Fortis on the eve of the financial crisis....
...Mr Orcel was one of the architects of the disastrous €72bn buyout of ABN Amro, advising the buyers Santander, Fortis and Royal Bank of Scotland. RBS and Fortis were later nationalised....
...ABN was once so dominant in the Netherlands that it referred to itself simply as De Bank. But after an ill-judged overseas expansion it was acquired by rivals RBS, Santander and Fortis in 2007....
...After the collapse of Fortis in 2008, Amsterdam stepped in to nationalise Fortis Bank Nederland and the Dutch assets of ABN for €17bn and assumed an additional €30bn of the bank’s debt....
...ABN Amro ceased to exist in 2007 when the bank was taken over in an ambitious three-way acquisition by Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Fortis....
...failed merger with Fortis and Royal Bank of Scotland....
...many outside the country, the nationalisation is a reminder of the 2008 collapse of ABN Amro, a former giant, which required more than €17bn from the government when its shortlived takeover by Santander, Fortis...
...The bank, which publishes its annual results on Friday, over-reached by an ambitious overseas expansion, and was acquired by rivals Santander, Fortis and RBS in 2007....
...Intertrust, which was founded in 1952, was acquired by Waterland in January 2010 from Fortis Bank Nederland and Bank Generale Luxembourg. ....
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