This meant the Dutch bank could buy only another 7% of Antonveneta when the pact expired.
The nationalistic instinct has meant that French people didn't want to give their money to a Dutch bank.
The Dutch bank's victory, now seemingly assured, will be the first foreign takeover of a big Italian bank.
John McCarthy at ING, a Dutch bank, suggests that foreign investment has made all of Turkish business more competitive.
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Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
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Prior to that date the Dutch bank's shares had been trading between the Barclay's bid and the RBS consortium's indicative offer.
But some Barclays shareholders said they would not oppose a retreat from the Dutch bank if volatility in the stock market persists.
That is far less likely for an institution such as Fortis, a large Belgo-Dutch bank which saw its shares plunge this week.
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ING, a Dutch bank, says there is more liquidity in the economy, as baby-boomer entrepreneurs are reaching retirement and selling their family businesses.
Its clients include government bodies in the Netherlands and abroad, and big companies including IBM, a computer giant, and ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank.
ING, the Dutch bank-and-insurance group which in 1995 snapped up Barings, an investment bank with a big asset-management arm, after the British firm went bust.
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.
But, whereas Mr Fazio's interventions cost him his reputation and eventually his job, Mr Wellink is unlikely to venture so far in the Dutch bank's defence.
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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But Dutch bank Rabobank was not awaiting any further review.
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.
Darrell Duthie, an analyst at Mees Pierson, a Dutch bank, points out that only a few of the businesses the American distribution chain and Europe's cheese in particular are big enough to enjoy economies of scale in their own right.
That deal has already come under fire from ABN's activist shareholder The Children's Investment Fund, and on Wednesday the Dutch bank said it was actively soliciting rival bids "from the largest U.S. and international banks" for the subsidiary.
The RBS group wants to break up the lender into three parts, so that Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis would get ABN's Dutch operations, Spanish bank Banco Santander Central Hispano SA, acquires ABN's Brazilian and Italian arms, and RBS getting Chicago-based LaSalle.
And late in 2012, major Dutch bank Rabobank announced it would terminate the 17-year sponsorship of its professional team because it was "no longer convinced that the international professional world of cycling can make this a clean and fair sport".
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.
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.
"It (the SNS situation) might make us slightly more nervous in terms of valuations and what we would be willing to pay for Dutch bank sub debt, but it hasn't changed our outlook across the board, " said Andrew Fraser, fixed-income investment director at Standard Life Investments Ltd.
At the time, other big cross-border banks, such as Fortis, a Benelux bank, and Dexia, a Belgo-Dutch bank, were in deep trouble, and there were growing concerns among European officials that a country could be overwhelmed if it was home to a big international bank that failed.
Alonso, who added that he still counts his tainted victory in Singapore as a win, insists it is back to business as normal at Renault, who will now run without the support of their title sponsor, the Dutch bank ING, which has withdrawn its backing with immediate effect.
The RBS group wants to break up the lender into three parts, so that Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis would get ABN's Dutch operations, Spanish bank Banco Santander Central Hispano SA (nyse: STD - news - people ), acquires ABN's Brazilian and Italian arms, and RBS getting Chicago-based LaSalle.
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