Profiles Rabobank Group
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Rabobank Group is a full-range financial services provider founded
on cooperative principles. The Group is comprised of 188 indepen
dent local Rabobanks in the Netherlands, Rabobank Nederland
and a large number of specialised subsidiaries. The Group's core
objective is to generate the highest possible customer value. To this
end, the organisation offers its clients all financial products and
services they require. Rabobank Group provides services to more
than half of the Dutch population (16 million) and Dutch compa
nies. In the Netherlands, Rabobank has dominant market positions
in almost all financial services areas: home mortgages, savings,
small and medium-sized businesses, and the food agri sector. It
has also significantly strengthened its position in the large corpo
rate market. Throughout the world, Rabobank Group, through
Rabobank International, focuses primarily on financing the inter
national food agri business, a niche market in which it has a
leading position. Rabobank Group has been awarded the highest
credit rating (Triple A), and has 330 offices in 41 countries outside
the Netherlands.
www.rabobank.com
Rabo Bouwfonds is an international real estate company with
three core activities focused on real estate: development, finance
and investment management. Rabo Bouwfonds operates in the
private and corporate markets and is one of Europe's largest real
estate companies. At year-end 2006, Rabo Bouwfonds had around
1,900 employees, with almost 500 working abroad. Bouwfonds
Property Development and Rabo Vastgoed are responsible for real
estate development.
FGH Bank and its brands Nederlandse Hypotheekbank and
Rijnlandse Bank perform the real estate finance activity. Bouwfonds
Asset Management and FGH Asset Management operate in real
estate investment.
beleggersbank
Alex has evolved from a sophisticated trading system to a digital
investors' bank. Alex Beleggersbank, which now has over 100,000
investor accounts, started life in 1999 and leads the market in the
field of on-line investing. It is also the largest source of orders from
private individuals on both the Euronext stock exchange and the
Euronext derivatives exchange.
Alex aims to provide the best possible services to a growing number
of investors who prefer to invest in line with their own individual
objectives, either wholly independently or relying on advice.
In addition, Alex offers a whole range of support and educational
services, including professional analyses, news reports, investment
specialists, seminars and the Alex Academy training institution,
which was recently accredited by Maastricht University.
www.alex.nl
partners in finance
De Lage Landen offers high-quality programmes in the area of
asset financing in the international market. De Lage Landen has
branches and collaborative ventures in more than 25 countries in
Europe, North and South America, Southeast Asia, Australia and
New Zealand. It is an international specialist in asset financing and
Vendor Finance, focusing on the Food Agri, Healthcare, Office
Equipment, Information Technology, Telecommunications,
Financial Institutions, Trucks Trailers, Public Finance and Materials
Handling Construction Equipment sectors. In the Netherlands,
it offers a broad range of leasing and trade financing products,
including equipment lease, car lease (both commercial and non
commercial vehicles), ICT lease, consumer finance and trade
finance. Athlon Carlease joined De Lage Landen Group in 2006.
www.delagelanden.com
