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ABN Amro Barclays has agreed to acquire Dutch bank ABN Amro for £45bn, which will lead to the loss of 12,800 jobs from the combined workforce of 217,000 and a further 10,800 jobs will transfer to lower-cost countries. 24-Apr-2007 ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, is to shed 2,400 back-office jobs worldwide, with the UK being one of the countries hardest hit, in order to transfer work to India and elsewhere. 28-Apr-2006 ABN Amro of the Netherlands is to shed 250 of the 3,000 jobs in its London-based corporate and investment banking operation. 20-Dec-2004 ABN Amro is to acquire a 9% stake in the Instinet-led consortium that owns the Tradepoint stock exchange operator. 30-Dec-1999 ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, is closing its corporate banking branch in Birmingham, and transferring accounts to London and Manchester. 19-Jul-1996 ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, is to build a headquarters for its investment banking operation at Spitalfields, which is seen as a boost to those trying to stop financial services companies moving away from the City of London to Canary Wharf. 01-Feb-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007