The Dutch retreat

ABN AmroÆs corporate communications division has spent most of the day stressing the Financial TimesÆ story went too far. The story centred on ABN AmroÆs recent æstrategicÆ re-organization which would involve shedding its retail banking operations in Asia. In conversations FinanceAsia has had with ABN AmroÆs head of external relations in Amsterdam, Thanno Massa, it has emerged that the FT may have taken the story a bit far.