in the network
calendar ofevents 1999
new fac.es
New department takes off
Easy Internet email
Z What'sNewS IssueS-May 1999
As reported in the April issue of What's
NewS, the new limit management
department, operating within glohal
credit risk management, has begun full-
scale independent operations in Utrecht
Jan Remie, head of limit management
under their new head, Jan Remie. Remie
has just celebrated his 25'h year with the
bank; 15 within Rabobank International
as account manager financial institu-
tions for North and South America and
front 1994 until recently as senior area
manager Asia and Australasia in
international trade finance. 'We are
eager to implement our new business
plan, just approved by Jaap Slotema
and in order to do so, we have hired
five new staff for the Utrecht office,'
Remie said. 'When things are in place,
we will start with a communication
plan possibly including a tour of main
branches in order to explain new
procedures designed for the
management of country and counter
party limits.' Among others, the business
plan outlines the following: a top-down
limit structure including country and
counterparty limits; country risk pricing;
and procedures and guidelines for the use
of bank limits and country limits. The
idea behind the creation of the new
department was to separate its functions
from those of relationship management,
thus avoiding conflicts of interest, and
improving reliahility and efficiency of our
systems. The new team consists of:
l.eendert Colijn, previously of inter
national research; Ad Streng and Karin
Maassen front data management; and
Mirand Postma and Lydia Saekan of
international trade finance. RI branches
will receive more detailed information on
the new procedures shortly.
Communicating with the outside world
from within the bank has just become
easier with new Internet technology. Now
sending or receiving external email from
the Internet or internally from Rabobank
entails a similar process. The only notice-
able difference is in the address of the
recipiënt or sender of the email. For more
information about the new Internet email,
see the document 'Easy Internet email' in
the Public Folder: All Public Folders: IT
Publication: MS Exchange.
Rabobank International
June 10
General Assembly Rabobank Nederland
CC
June10-20
Champions Trophy Hockey (men women), Brisbane, Australia
RIAU/MA
June 18
'World Wine Industry' at VINEXP0, Bordeaux, France
FAR
July 23-25
Tour de France event, Paris, France
NB/MA
August 18-29
European Championships Hockey (women) Köln, Germany
MA
September 1-12
European Championships Hockey (men), Padova, Italy
MA
September 8-10
Global Food Supply Retail Conference, Paris, France
FAR/FABM/MA
CC - Corporate Communication Rabobank Nederland; FABM - Food Agribusiness Management
FAR - Food Agribusiness Research; MA: Marketing Rabobank International; NB - The Netherlands Branch
RIAJ - Rabobank International Australia
Daniël Hebert
(left), newly
appointed
head of
mergers and
acquisitions/
financial
sponsor group
for the Americas, believes his task is
to 'build relationships with our
dient base in the middle market
food and beverage and health care
industry sectors as well as to
enhance both internaI and external
awareness of Rabobank
Internationale advisory capa-
bilities.'From the start of his
investment banking career at
Morgan Stanley in 1981 through
his roles as director of corporate
finance at Salomon Brothers, and
managing director of corporate
finance and head of the global
food and beverage group at BT
Alex Brown, Hebert has emphasized
the nature ofsuccess through
teamwork: 'We are tackling the
business on two fronts: by deve-
loping partnerships with corporate
banking and the leverage finance
unit. This combined approach
represents a strong selling feature
in differentiating us from the
competition. Our job is to convince
our clients that they should think of
Rabobank when discussion in-
volves strategie issues.'What
impresses and excites Hebert about
his new position is the 'willingness
within the network to assist in
developing the M&A franchise.'
With ten years investment banking
experience in Latin America,
Emmanuel M. Durand (right).joins
Rabobank as managing director
coordinating our mergers and
acquisitions in that region.
Previously with BT Wolfensohn,
Durand was responsible for M&A in
Argentina, Peru and Venezuela. His
experience in developing relation
ships with European multinational
companies in Latin America
includes transactions in the food
and beverage, retailing, tele-
communications and basic
industries. Durand says he will 'take
advantage of Rabobank's strongly
recognized industry focus to
develop relationships at the
strategie level
with the major
players in each
market.' A
graduate of
the Ecole
Superieure de
Commerce
(Trance) and the Harvard Business
School MBA program, Durand sees
'tremendous potential for
development of M&A activity in th
rapidly changing region where the
combination of our industry and
product expertise will create the
conditions for future success.'
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