The Dutch government on Friday said it would inject a further €2.5bn ($3.5bn) into ABN Amro, the bank that was bought and split up by a foreign consortium in 2007 but which came into partial Dutch state ownership last year.

Royal Bank of Scotland, the part-nationalised UK bank, confirmed last night that it would also have to inject an unspecified amount of capital into a new vehicle, RBS NV, which covers assets acquired by RBS as part of the ABN deal.