AMSTERDAM (Thomson Financial) - The number of ABN Amro Holding NV clients
who switched banks during the takeover battle for the bank was restricted to a
minimum, the chairman of the management committee of Fortis Bank, Filip Dierckx,
said in newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad.
"The uncertainty that we saw during the summer ebbed away in the autumn,"
the FD quoted Dierckx saying.
Rival banks such as the unlisted Rabobank and private banking group F. Van
Lanschot Bankiers NV had previously said they had detected a higher number of
new customers, the FD reported.
However Dierckx said the recovery in the retention of ABN Amro clients was
especially noticeable in the mortgages market, as the number of mortgages sold
increased by 7 pct, the FD reported.
The savings activities also had a positive result despite trailing the
average market increase, the newspaper added.
Aaron Gray-Block; aaron.gray-block@thomson.com
agb/ejp
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