Southpaw - Merrill will get marching orders from post-Goodwin RBS
When ABN Amro’s shareholders voted in favour of the RBS consortium’s takeover bid last October, one adviser to the Dutch bank dubbed it the "AOL Time Warner" of the financial services sector, in reference to the ill-timed $164bn media merger struck at the height of the dotcom boom in 2000.
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