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...He famously advised Royal Bank of Scotland on its disastrous €72bn takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007, a deal so bad (it led to the collapse of RBS) he apologised for it....
...Full tale here + (Lex) Dutch bank ABN Amro has named Robert Swaak as its new chief executive....
...“The deteriorating outlook for Italy’s economic growth strengthens the view that the budget deficit will significantly overshoot the government’s targets,” said ABN Amro....
...The share of new mortgages lent by the country’s three biggest banks — Rabobank, ABN Amro and ING — dropped below 50 per cent for the first time last year, though they have since regained market share....
...“This will increase further speculation whether the ECB will have enough bonds to buy up to the end of the QE programme”, said Kim Liu at ABN Amro....
...The other investors are ABN Amro, Accenture, BNP Paribas, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Citigroup, CME Ventures, Deutsche Börse, ICAP, JPMorgan, Santander InnoVentures, the Depository Trust & Clearing...
...It is sometimes forgotten that the biggest bank takeover of all time — the three-way acquisition of ABN Amro back in 2008 — was triggered by an ABN break-up agenda pushed by activist hedge fund TCI....
...“The Reserve Bank of Australia’s statement that the dollar is adjusting to the significant declines in key commodity prices was less dovish than before,” said Roy Teo, senior FX strategist at ABN Amro....
...It has been heavily backed by two of Europe’s largest electronic market makers, Optiver and IMC Financial Markets, as well as by BinckBank, ABN Amro and Nasdaq, the US group....
...Gust Biesbroeck, head of transportation for ABN Amro, said cheap capital had been available at a time in the shipping cycle when it would normally not be....
...Mr de Boer has held a variety of risk management roles at RBS and ABN Amro. Kames Capital has hired Matt Harding as an investment analyst focusing on North American equities....
...The decision by Banco Espírito Santo, BNP Paribas, ABN Amro, Euroclear and Société Générale and others to own a stake in the exchange goes against the global industry trend over the last 15 years for incumbent...
...Bankruptcy We discussed this at some length on Monday because it reminded us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
...executive of Deutsche Börse, Werner Seifert, scuppering a bid for the London Stock Exchange; persuaded Mittal Steel to increase its bid for Arcelor Brasil by 55 per cent; and precipitated the sale of ABN Amro...
...NYSE said on Tuesday that ABN Amro Clearing Chicago, Citigroup Global Markets and Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith were becoming clearing members of New York Portfolio Clearing, its clearing house...
...Chi-X Europe’s shareholders are: ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, Citi, Credit Suisse, Getco, Goldman Sachs, Instinet, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Société Générale, UBS, Citadel, Getco and Optiver, the Dutch proprietary...
...Ms Mansour, who joins from ABN Amro Bank, will be a senior client portfolio manager....
...Activist hedge funds are back in the Dutch market; remember what came out of TCI’s 2007 push to break up ABN Amro....
...For most European corporate executives, the mention of activist hedge funds brings forth memories of the sale of Dutch bank ABN Amro to the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2007, or of the ousting of Werner Seifert...
...Other investors include hedge fund GLG, RBS-owned ABN Amro and Goldman Sachs....
...Jana’s move marks a big-ticket return to activism, with echoes of its boom-time peak in 2007 when hedge funds triggered the sale of ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, to Royal Bank of Scotland ....
...component of the deal was the agreement of Yucaipa, the Los Angeles-based private equity group run by billionaire Ron Burkle, to take over the Reykjavik-based company’s €120m secured credit facility from ABN Amro...
...The decision by Fortis Bank Nederland (FBN) to sell off the unit may surprise observers since, publicly, it is committed to integrating its businesses with the Dutch operations of ABN Amro and has not announced...
...An equally weighted basket of four dummy portfolios operated by RBS (and previously ABN Amro) encompassing carry, value, trend, and short volatility – four typical trading strategies – would be in positive...
...The Edinburgh-based company has also appointed Michael Geier, formerly a managing director at ABN Amro Asset Management Germany, as investment director for Germany and Austria....
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