Rabo
band
New Year Message
Quality growth
forecast 1993
Kauu
General managers
on the move
Fire escape
People
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The result is the now monthiy
Raboband International. We
hope it will improve our under-
standing of what is happening
within the organization world-
wide and promote the Rabo
team spirit - because that is
what it is all about. If we can
continually maintain and improve
our team spirit, then we will be
able to tackle the competition
in the changing and unstable
economie circumstances in to-
day's banking world.
The policy we will continue to
pursue this year is aimed at our
Dutch and network clients and
at our core specialization - the
food and agribusiness. We be-
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the end of the year to discuss
the instability of economies
worldwide, and how the bank
should respond to this uncer-
tain environment. The result
of that meeting was a general
consensus on the selective
pursuit of quality, with improved
balances between interest and
fee income.
The international aspects of the
Strategie Action Plan have been
further elaborated and a num-
Issue 14/January 25,1993
lieve that the ever-expanding
package of products offered to
our cliënt groups will provide
the kind of services clients to-
day need. With this strategy in
mind, the international division
is gradually carving out a place
for itself in the global banking
world. Our results over the years,
are making an increasing contri-
bution to the overall results. All
of our staff worldwide have work-
ed hard to help achieve these
results. We would like to thank
you all for your efforts in the
past, and to encourage you to
meet the challenges presented
by the coming year. A happy and
especially prosperous 1993 to
you all.
Baron D.J.M.G. van Slingelandt
ber of concrete decisions im-
plemented. A number of new
management tools to assist
qualitative growth will be intro-
duced in 1993, including credit
courses, asset/liability man
agement, risk/revert models
and coordinating account man
agement concepts. The report
further states that in the light of
these new tools and other
growth-oriented strategies, and
the fact that all foreign offices
(including those still in start-up
phase) will have a positive re
sult before provisioning, a 10-
percent improvement of results
is forecast.
Departing Singapore general manager Gijs van de Schriek surrounded by
his staff.
The Singapore office organ-
ized a fun farewell for its de
parting general manager at the
end of December. Gijs van de
Schriek had been with the of
fice since it was opened in
1986 and has seen it grow into
one of the biggest foreign of
fices in the Rabobank organiz
ation. Van de Schriek joins the
London office as general man
ager on January 25 and his pre-
decessorthere, Willem van Lyn-
den van Keppel will take on the
job of general manager at the
Singapore operation. The Lon
don staff combined Christmas
celebrations with Van Lynden
van Keppel's send off and are
organizing a cocktail party in
early February to welcome their
new general manager.
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the fire brigade. They arrived
within five minutes and entered
the second floor through the
window - the smoke was so
thick they could not use the
door.'
Why the printer short-circuited
is a mystery and if the fire had
Belgium Nathalie De Backer
joined the back office staff on
December 16. The following ap-
pointments became effective on
January 1,1993. Mick Elegeert
has been appointed account
manager agri-business. Deputy
director Roger Delcroix is now
responsible for coordinating
food and agribusiness and Eric
van de Peer took up his new po-
sition as senior account man
ager export finance. Account
manager Karei Stoops has left
the bank to take up an appoint-
ment with Lage Landen Leasing.
New York Senior vice president
Stephen I. Piccininni joined the
New York office as deputy
general manager from Midland
Montagu on December 1,
1992. Former independent con-
tractorforthe Rabobank in New
York, Callan Oltman was ap
pointed collateral inspection of-
ficer on January 1, 1993.
Switzerland Kathrin Rolli has
been appointed as assistant to
the operation department as
from December 1, 1992.
UK Senior dealer, investment
and derivatives Rustam Lam
joined the bank from Banque
Paribas on November 9, 1992.
Julia Hughes was appointed cus-
tomer services clerk in the ad-
ministration division on Novem
ber 11,1992. The banking divi
sion has a new junior secretary,
Nicola Shears. She joined the
bank on November 16, 1992.
Corporate finance researcher
Joanne Slater took up her post
at the bank on November 23,
not been discovered so quickly,
it could have developed into a
serious blaze affecting the who-
le building. Flowever, the Miian
office is already back to normal
- only a iimited amount of of
fice equipment was destroyed
and smoke clean-up operations
and re-painting will be complet-
ed before the beginning of
February.
1992. David Sprackling was
appointed technical operations
administrator on November 30,
1992. Deputy manager ac
counts Andrew Skeoch joined
the bank from Kansallis-Osake-
Pannki on December 30,1992.
The corporate finance division
has recruited a new manager
project fiance group. Paul
McCulloch comes from the
Sanwa Bank.
Utrecht Frans Kragten has join
ed the Europadesk from the
bond dealing department. He
will be responsible for Switzer
land. Tjeerd de Vries has been
appointed to the corporate fi
nance division. Both appoint-
ments as per January 1,1993.
INTERNATIONAL
Editorial staff
Stan Polman and Anne Lavelle
(Editorial Department) and Cees
van Rest and Jacqueline Noord
hoorn-van Bentum (International)
Division).
Editorial address
Rabobank Nederland
Caroline Renette, editorial
assistant
P.O. Box 17100
NL 3500 HG Utrecht
Telephone +31 30 902083
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