Profile of the Rabobank Group
The Rabobank Group is the largest financial
service provider in the Dutch market. It
comprises 328 independent, local co-operative
Rabobanks in the Netherlands, the central
Rabobank Nederland organisation and a large
number of specialised subsidiaries.The Group
has been awarded the highest possible credit
rating.The Group's core target is to generate
customer value.
Competence centres
Strong market position
Triple A
International network
The local Rabobanks and their clients form the Rabobank Group's
co-operative core business. De banks are members and shareholders
of the supralocal co-operative organisation, Rabobank Nederland,
which advises the banks and supports their local services.
Rabobank Nederland also supervises the collective of local banks on
behalf of the Dutch central bank. Rabobank Nederland further acts
as an (international) wholesale bank and as bankers'bank to the
Group and is the holding company of a large number of subsidiaries.
The Rabobank Group's ambition is to provide its 9 million clients,
both private and business, with all possible financial products and
services.To this end, it has a large number of specialised businesses
engaged in asset management and investment (Robeco,
Schretlen, Effectenbank Stroeve, Alex) pension services, insurances
and occupational health and safety (Interpolis), Leasing (De Lage
Landen), venture capital (Gilde), real estate and mortgages (FGH
Bank, Rabo Vastgoed, Obvion), and corporate and investment ban
king (Rabobank International and its subsidiary Rabo Securities,
Rabobank Nederland Corporate Clients, Group Treasury).These
subsidiaries provide financial advice and products to the local
Rabobanks and their clients on the one hand and serve their own
clients directly at home and abroad on the other.
The Rabobank Group is a network of competence centres working
closely together. This networked expertise allows the Group to
respond actively to the growing demand from business clients
and private individuals for a balanced package of financial services
and products.The Group thus combines the best of two worlds:
the local involvement and personal touch of the local Rabobanks
and the expertise and scale of a large organisation.
The Rabobank Group serves more than half of the Dutch population
and Dutch businesses. In the Dutch market, Rabobank is accordingly
market leader for virtually all financial services: mortgage loans
(26%), private savings (38%), small and medium-sized enterprises
(39%) and the agricultural sector (85%). Its share in the corporate
market has been strengthened considerably.
The Rabobank Group has the highest credit rating (Triple A),
awarded by the well-known international rating agencies Moody's
and Standard Poor's.
To serve our clients in the international market, the Rabobank
Group has 222 branches in 33 countries outside the Netherlands.
