2009 - / ABN AMRO - Amsterdam 

~ Royal Bank of Scotland  supporting integration strategy

RBS and ABN AMRO
A great deal of ABN AMRO's businesses around the world will be distributed to RBS's Global Banking & Markets (GBM) business. GBM is a leading banking partner to major corporations and financial and governmental institutions around the world, providing an extensive range of debt financing, risk management and investment services to its customers. In the past five years it has achieved a pre-eminent position in each of the markets it has entered, and today it is a leading global provider of bonds, loans, securitisation, leveraged finance, project finance, FX and risk management products.

  The Netherlands
The businesses that are joining RBS in the Netherlands are Business Unit (BU) Global Clients and wholesale clients in the Netherlands, and the product capabilities serving their clients within the Global Markets and Transaction Banking Product Business Units in the region.

Combining these areas of ABN AMRO in the Netherlands with RBS's GBM business will offer customers access to the leading corporate and institutional bank in Europe in the provision of banking services to major corporate, institutional and commercial customers. It will combine RBS product strengths and relationship models with ABN AMRO's international cash management, payments and trade finance products to deepen the combined customer franchise and enhance the product and service offering to customers.

The Netherlands is viewed as an excellent home for investment by RBS and they already have a small presence in the Netherlands, which they intend to grow. RBS is currently finalising new investment plans in the country as part of creating the infrastructure they need to support their growth aspirations in the Netherlands and wider global banking market. RBS expects to expand the number of people they employ in the Netherlands by a substantial number.