ABN AMRO's final count down

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Thursday the shareholders of the ABN AMRO bank will vote for one of the two bidders; UK's Barclays and an international consortium of UK's Royal Bank of Scotland, Belgian Fortis and Spains Banco Santander.

 De Nederlandse Bank (national bank of the Netherlands) and the Dutch minister of finance already gave their go aheads to both bidders. The employees and clients of the ABN AMRO bank can only wait and see. One thing is for sure, this take-over has a huge implication for the Dutch financial markets, but also for the European and even global markets.

 US based LaSalle bank, formerly part of ABN AMRO bank has just been bought by Bank of America, in Europe one of the largest banks will disappear, whilst others, like Fortis will rise. We have to see what these changes will bring to consumers and the markets.