Word: abn
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...mortgage market, the Royal Bank of Scotland had other business in hand. As French, German and Dutch banks confessed to being hit by their exposure to soured U.S. sub-prime mortgages, an RBS-led consortium was closing in on its eventual $100 billion buy-out of Dutch rival ABN Amro, the banking industry's biggest ever takeover. One year on, and Britain's second-largest lender is still making news - though these days it's much less welcome. On August 8, RBS announced it had tumbled to a $1.33 billion loss in the first half of this year - a massive...
...began trading far beyond his responsibilities, racking up debts as global markets gyrated. To cover his losses, he created complex fictitious trades, until the losses appeared to spiral out of control. Said Kinner Lakhani, a London-based analyst for the Dutch bank ABN Amro, who covers Société Générale: "It was out of the realms of anyone's expectation...
...security, says Mark Thomas, an analyst with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in London. "The single most important factor [in security] is that the risk-control function is independent of traders," Thomas told TIME on Thursday. "You would typically put extra supervision on that person for a couple of years." Said ABN Amro's Lakhani: "This was management's biggest nightmare...
...might expect on Wall Street, money is the prime motivator. So long as cash continues to flood into environmental investment vehicles, new ones will keep being created. "There is a lot of demand for these eco-products," says Ronald van der Ham, assistant director of equity structuring for ABN Amro, and that is what's driving "the constant stream of new indices and new funds being launched." Lipper FERI, a mutual-fund information provider in London, estimates that Europe's environmental and ecological equity funds alone raised nearly $8 billion in the first three quarters of 2007, almost $4 billion...
...surprisingly the big banks - many of them still nursing their wounds from the subprime meltdown - are eager to embrace this new money-spinner. Institutions like ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch and HSBC have all created structured products built around their own indices: protected offerings, for example, that track an index but give a minimum guaranteed return, or leveraged offerings that amplify gains and losses. They can be used to hedge risks presented by global warming, or simply to bet on the likelihood that cash will continue to cascade into the sector...