The situation is something like this: Not even that many months ago, the Belgian financial multinational Fortis had some megalomaniac desire to buy the – far too large- Dutch financial multinational ABN AMRO. The Belgians made a deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the
Spanish Banco Santander, who both bought different parts of the [...]
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