The Dutch banking regulator has signalled it might approve the break-up of ABN Amro, making the Dutch investment bank a more attractive target for bidders, according to the Times .
ABN Amro has been in exclusive talks about a takeover deal with Barclays Bank for the last three weeks, but analysts have suggested other groups could enter the fray if parts of ABN could be divested. Barclays' exclusivity period is set to end this month, says the paper. “It might be that a solid bank takes over and decides to restructure,” Nout Wellink, the president of the Dutch central bank - which regulates the Dutch banking market - said. “Well, let them come to the supervisor, and we will look at it, and when it looks fine there will be no problem whatsoever." Bankers have sugg...
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