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ABN leaves door open to consortium

By Ian Bickerton in Amsterdam and Peter Thal Larsen in London

Published: May 7 2007 07:36 | Last updated: May 7 2007 21:41

ABN Amro on Monday left the door open for a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland to make an offer for the Dutch lender, even though talks between the two sides broke down on Sunday night.

The Dutch bank will call an extraordinary meeting, probably in June, at which a vote will be taken on “the alternatives available to [shareholders] at that time”, it said on Monday.

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