Among other Dutch companies that offer option incentive plans are: ING Group, and ABN-Amro.
It has been criticised for over-stretching itself in the takeover of ABN Amro bank in 2007.
The industry is in the midst of consolidation, says Paul Roger, analyst at ABN Amro.
"Have made it to the heart of Baba Amro, " she wrote when she arrived.
An ABM Amro, Citigroup, ING Barings or Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale would enjoy the confidence of customers.
Sorry, bondholders, ABN Amro said, but your securities were issued by an empty corporate shell.
"It is a pre-emptive move, " said Abheek Barua, an economist at ABM Amro in Mumbai.
So when DAF got into financial trouble, ABN Amro looked after its own interests first.
Christopher Wood, strategist for the ABN Amro Asia bank in Hong Kong, believes so.
AMRO, a sprawling bank with assets in over 50 countries, is akin to a national champion.
"There aren't many good companies" to lend to, explains Jim Lam, ABN AMRO analyst in Shanghai.
Swapping weapons for chocolates and charm, Flomenbaum became a frequent customer at ABN Amro bank in Antwerp.
"It's a chicken-and-egg situation, " says Chulakorn Singhakowin, president of Bangkok-based Bank of Asia, which ABN-Amro took over.
The battle for Antonveneta started about seven months ago when ABN Amro launched a bid for the bank.
"All the signs are pointing to lowered guidance, " says analyst Bill Shope, who follows Sun for ABN Amro.
Royal Bank of Scotland received enthusiastic encouragement from its institutional shareholders for its acquisition of bits of ABN AMRO.
Not only was the 6.75% bond offering managed by ABN Amro Bank N.
He then moved to ABN Amro North America to lead its private-banking operations.
You could, but only a few big ones--namely, ABN Amro, Banco Santander and HSBC--have a sizable presence in Brazil.
Fortis, a Belgo-Dutch bank overstretched by its role in acquiring ABN AMRO, is now part-owned by the Benelux governments.
Sir Tom admitted to MPs that his bank's much-criticised purchase of Dutch rival ABN Amro had been a "big mistake".
SEEDS.nl is a project of Dutch bank ABN-AMRO, one of the few banks to jump into crowdfunding with both feet.
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Similarly with the ABN Amro takeover: they simply did it at the top of the market and paid too much.
Cor Boonstra, the recently retired chairman of Philips Electronics, for example, sits on the boards of Ahold, Heineken and ABN Amro.
It swallowed up NatWest in Britain, Charter One in America and eventually led the consortium that bought ABN AMRO in 2007.
Barclays has just won an important battle in its bid for ABN Amro , though the war is by no means won.
"Both Singapore and Hong Kong are trying to develop their debt markets, " says Sergio Rial, Asia-Pacific CEO for Dutch banking giant ABN-Amro.
"Malaysia deserves credit for restructuring and recapitalizing its banking sector, " says Christopher Wood, a strategist for ABN Amro Asia in Hong Kong.
And the reason is not because ABN AMRO has become philanthropic, following its brush with potential failure in the crisis years.
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Much of that was inherited with the calamitous take-over of ABN Amro.
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