Saturday Dec 26 | Business News
Those Who Are No Longer With Us
There were no doubt several high-profile bankers who died in 2009 who merit a mention, but we are highlighting just five.
Tragic Banker Rehearsed Suicide Before Killing Himself
Bloomberg reports that, according to the coroner investigating his death, former ABN AMRO executive Huibert Boumeester rehearsed his suicide 3 months before he actually shot himself.
Multi-millionaire City banker committed suicide after disastrous RBS takeover
A multi-millionaire City banker shot himself in the head after leaving his job at a bank which was at the centre of a disastrous takeover by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Help is here for irrational home investors
A bracelet designed by Philips Electronics and ABN AMRO aims at sensing day traders' stress levels so they can "time-out, wind down and re-consider their actions." Photograph by: Handout photo, Handout photo It is certainly one of the more innovative spinoff effects of the financial crisis.
Reportlinker Adds South African Banking Sector Analysis Report
South African banking sector is well-developed and highly liberalized. It is one of the largest and most deregulated sectors within the emerging markets.
Abn Amro Morgans rebrands to RBS Morgans
Stockbroker ABN AMRO Morgans will change its name on Monday to RBS Morgans to reflect its 50 per cent parent Royal Bank of Scotland Plc .
Financial Sector Suicides On The Rise
Anjool Malde, a 24-year-old equity sales trader at Deutsche Bank jumped to his death from the eighth floor of a restaurant popular with London's banking community over the weekend.
`Business Came First' for Boumeester, ABN Amro Banker Found Dead in Woods
Banking at ABN Amro Holding NV was the only career Huibert Boumeester ever knew.
Police believe find body of former Abn Amro Cfo
British police said on Monday they believed they had found the body of Huibert Boumeester, former chief financial officer of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, who went missing a week ago with two of his guns.
Huibert Boumeester had homes in Belgravia, Clapham, and a 150-acre estate in Perthshire
When Huibert Boumeester left his home in Belgravia last Monday morning, it was supposed to have been to attend an appointment to start rebuilding a once-glittering banking career.
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