Collaboration between Rabobank, N.A. (RNA) and Rabobank Global Financial
Markets (GFM) has resulted in a rapid growth of structured products business in
the United States. GFM's talent in designing attractive investment products,
and their successful distribution model for RNA-issued products has resulted in
new levels of deposit in-flow.
Rapid growth in
structureel products
GFM began developing innovative
structured products for the retail
investment market outside Europe in June
2004. 'When we visited the regional
Rabobank retail offices in California, we saw
how we could put our investment product
knowledge and experience to work in
cooperation with RNA,' says Luuk Heuskes,
Senior Vice President Structured Products
for Rabobank GFM in New York. Adds Bill
Mansfield, MD Plead of Origination Sales
in the Americas, 'We quickly realised that
we needed to coordinate all of our GFM
product capabilities in order to provide
the right structures to the US investor
base. The solution lay in designing
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