Daily Express (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
FRIENDS PROVIDENT is understood to be in talks with Dutch financial services group Rabobank about the sale of its 52 per cent stake in fund manager F&C Asset Management.
Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
It has taken a year to put together, but the Bakersfield Community Concert Association is at last ready to begin its 2008-09 concert season at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Rabobank Theater. The all-volunteer Bakersfield Community Concert Association began in 1920 as the Kern County Musical Association, and for almost 90 years has been presenting a variety of soloists and ensembles from around the...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The surprising element here is that Canara Robeco,, a joint venture between Canara Mutual Fund and Rabobank, has more than doubled its AUM and market share in the past six months. It now has around Rs 6,006 crore under management.
Wikinomics.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... and offset them with a green project. Similar initiatives run by Barclays, Co-operative Bank and Rabobank promote responsible purchases or try to neutralize the environmental damage of products. With detailed information on a customer’s spending, financial institutions are in a unique position to evaluate an individual’s environmental impact. Knowing that someone has a mortgage for a 5000...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Companies Agency, Desjardins, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, Merrill Lynch, Rabobank, Rural Servicios Informaticos, SDC Udvikling, TEMENOS, Toyota and Volvofinans. BluePhoenix has 15 offices in the USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Cyprus, South Korea, Australia, and Israel. About Catalyst Catalyst Funds are Israeli-based...
Radio Netherlands English (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... but the reality in Europe is very much the opposite. Allard Bruinshoofd, a senior economist with Rabobank Nederland, stresses that the danger doesn't lie so much in weak banks, because most European financial institutions are - according to him - quite sound. The real risk, he warns, comes when a bank's shareholders, depositors and savers loose confidence in the organization, thus triggering...
Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
What is arguably the most famous piano concerto ever written is the centerpiece of the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra's first concert of the season at 8 p.m. Saturday at the theater at Rabobank Convention Center.
Forbes (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... banks that currently operate in Ireland, including the Royal Bank of Scotland (nyse: - - ), HBOS, Rabobank and Danksa. "This massively skews the competitive landscape in Ireland," said Collins Stewart analyst Alex Potter. A spokeswoman for Ulster Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland's Irish division, confirmed that it had made an application to be included in the scheme and was "confident" that...
Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... 8 p.m.; concert preview with Jerome Kleinsasser, CSUB music professor, 7 p.m., the theater at Rabobank Convention Center, 1001 Truxtun Ave. $32 to $48. 323-7928 or bakersfieldsymphony.org.Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic, 11:30 a.m., 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Rabobank Arena, 1001 Truxtun Ave. $16 to $40. ticketmaster.com or call 322-2525.“Oklahoma,”...
A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... the Irish taxpayer. But foreign banks operating in Ireland, including Ulster Bank (owned by RBS), Rabobank (Dutch), and Postbank (part owned by, er, Fortis) are not covered. Any wholesale lender to these banks now has a strong incentive to switch to one of the six Irish HQ’d banks to get the guarantee. And it’s still not clear whether the liabilities of UK subsidiaries of Irish banks are...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... are: National Irish Bank, which is owned by Danish bank Danske ACC, which is owned by Dutch bank Rabobank Ulster Bank and First Active, which are owned by Royal Bank of Scotland Bank of Scotland (Ireland) and Halifax, which are owned by Lloyds TSB/HBOS IIB Bank, which is owned by Belgian bank KBC Credit Unions Postbank, which is jointly owned by An Post and Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... Times reminds us. The measure does not extend to deposits or debts in National Irish Nank, ACC, Rabobank or Ulster Bank which are subsidiaries of large international banks. For instance, Ulster Bank is owned by the giant Royal Bank of Scotland and National, the Northern Bank in NI is owned by Danske Bank which has netted out of Lehman's at a cost of a mere $100 million and appears in no...
The Bankwatch (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
... Barclays 94% Lloyds/ HBOS (est) 78% Belgium Fortis 254% Dexia 173% KBC 102% Netherlands ING 289% Rabobank 121% Germany Deutsche Bank 86% Austria Erste Bank 85% Italy Unicredit 80% Cyprus Bank of Cyprus 253% Switzerland UBS 484% Credit Suisse 290% My additions - North America Canada BMO 31% RBC 53% TD 42% Scotia 39% US BofA 13% JP Morgan 14% Citi 16% Microsoft 0.3% The matter of funding and...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
... for a ride and want to retain a degree of control," Jan Lambregts, head of research for Asia at Rabobank Global Financial Markets, told Dow Jones Newswires. "The risk of a staggered or phased approach is that the punch is weakened too much and the crisis allowed to linger." Investors were also unsettled by signs of widening problems in the European financial sector, with the nationalisation...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
... a ride and want to retain a degree of control," said Jan Lambregts, head of research for Asia at Rabobank Global Financial Markets. "The risk of a staggered or phased approach is that the punch is weakened too much and the crisis allowed to linger." Oil prices fell, with Brent Crude down $1.12 at $102.42, as traders took the view that a global slowdown would cut demand. The US bail-out plan,...
