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The AMsterdamsche en ROtterdamsche Bank (AMRO Bank, lit. ' Bank of Amsterdam and Rotterdam ') was a major Dutch bank that was created in 1964 by the merger of the Amsterdamsche Bank (est. 1871) and the Rotterdamsche Bank (est. 1863). [1] In 1991, it merged with Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) to form ABN AMRO.
ABN AMRO was the main sponsor of Dutch football club AFC Ajax of Amsterdam from 1991 to 2008. The sponsor logo was at the time the only one in the world to be printed vertically down the right hand side of the front of the shirt. As of 2014, ABN AMRO is one of the strategic industry partners with Duisenberg School of Finance. [46]
With a history dating back to 1737, Van Lanschot Kempen is the oldest independent bank in the Netherlands, [1] the oldest independent bank in the Benelux [2] [3] and one of the oldest independent banks in the world. [4]
Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN, "General Bank of the Netherlands") was a Dutch bank that was created in 1964 through the merger of the Netherlands Trading Society (Dutch: Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij, NHM, est. 1824) with the Twentsche Bank (TB, est. 1861). [1] In 1991, ABN merged with Amsterdamsche en Rotterdamsche Bank (AMRO Bank) to form ...
This requirement towards G-SIBs depend on an indicator-based measure of size, interconnectedness, complexity, non-substitutibility and global reach, elevating it to be 1.0% or 1.5% or 2.0% or 2.5% or 3.5% higher, compared to the similar Basel III capital requirement at 7% towards banks not contained on the list.
On November 1, 2007, an extraordinary shareholder meeting was held to change ABN AMRO's management. Mark Fisher from RBS took over as CEO. At that meeting the consortium stated that 97% of all shares were in their hands. Fortis would use the ABN AMRO brand name for Fortis's retail banking operations in the Netherlands.
Until 2009, the bank was known as Fortis MeesPierson. The name derives from the November 1992 merger of merchant banks Mees & Hope (founded by Franco Cordelois, Jan de Vrijer & Rudolf & Gregorius Mees as Cordelois, de Vrijer & Mees in 1720, becoming G. Mees & Zoon and was renamed R. Mees & Zoonen which merged with Hope & Co. (founded by Scots Jan & Henry Hope in 1762) in 1962) and Pierson ...
Banco Real branch, in Belo Horizonte. Banco Real was a Brazilian bank, owned by Spain's Banco Santander. ABN AMRO had owned the bank but in October 2007, a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland that also included Banco Santander and Belgium's Fortis, acquired ABN AMRO and proceeded to dismember it.