FAQ

Here are answers to a few of the most frequently asked questions about ABN AMRO. If you still have a question after reading this page, you can use the search page or you can contact us.

The questions are divided into the following categories:

• General information
• Financial information
• Management
• Sponsoring
• Contact information

General information

Where is ABN AMRO located worldwide?
ABN AMRO has more than 4,000 branches in 52 countries worldwide. For a complete overview, please go to the Worldwide Presence section.

How many employees does ABN AMRO have?
ABN AMRO has a staff of more than 100,000 full-time equivalents worldwide.

How is ABN AMRO organised?
ABN AMRO is organised into a number of Business Units (BUs). These units are responsible for managing a distinct region, client segment or product segment, while also sharing expertise and operational excellence across the Group.

We have five regional Client BUs: the Netherlands, Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. These BUs serve about 20 million consumer clients and small to larger businesses worldwide. ABN AMRO is among the world's leading players in these businesses.

We have two global Client BUs to serve clients with global needs. The BU Private Clients provides private banking services to wealthy individuals and families and has EUR 150 bln in Assets under Administration (as at July 2007). The BU Global Clients serves our 550 multinational clients.

We have two Product BUs: Global Markets and Transaction Banking.

• Global Markets develops products for our commercial clients across the globe.
• Transaction Banking is our product organisation covering all payments and trade in the bank for our retail, private client, and commercial markets.

Services was established to create cost savings through consolidation and standardisation. It focuses on further exploiting new market solutions for support services with the aim to achieve better products and services for our clients at lower costs.

Group Functions collaborates with the BUs in maximising client and shareholder value. Its basic functions are governance (facilitating the implementation of Managing Board policy throughout the bank), standard and policy setting (setting the parameters that the BUs work within), and sharing expertise across the company.

To provide all our clients with even better products and services, we also have a cross-BU Consumer Client Segment and a cross-BU Commercial Client Segment. These segments focus on aligning the Client BUs with the Product BUs, sharing best practices and exchanging winning formulas across the Group in order to deliver high-quality solutions to our client bases across the world.

What is ABN AMRO's global tag line?
ABN AMRO's global tag line is making more possible. It aims to communicate at a glance what the bank stands for to customers, employees and other stakeholders.

What are the ABN AMRO Group's major subsidiaries?
You can view a list of ABN AMRO's major subsidiaries and participating interests in the Annual Report.

For the websites of some of our subsidiaries, please go to our links page.

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Financial information

On which stock exchanges are the shares of ABN AMRO listed?
The ordinary shares of ABN AMRO Holding N.V. are listed on the Euronext (Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris) and New York stock exchanges.

The shares are available in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), each ADR representing one ordinary share. The depositary receipts for preference shares and the convertible preference shares are listed on the Euronext Amsterdam Exchange.

In which worldwide indices are ABN AMRO's shares included?

When did ABN AMRO shares first become listed?
Shares of ABN AMRO first became listed in 1991, when ABN and Amro Bank merged.

How many outstanding shares does ABN AMRO have?
At the end of 2006, the number of ordinary shares outstanding was 1,853.8 million.

When was ABN AMRO's last stock split?
The last stock split of the ABN AMRO share took place on 13 May 1997. The ordinary share of 5 guilders (about EUR 2.27) was split into 4 pieces of 1.25 guilders (about EUR 0.57) each.

When does ABN AMRO release its results?
Up-to-date information can always be found in the Financial Calendar.

When does ABN AMRO pay dividend and how much is the dividend per share this year?
All information about our dividend policy, payment dates and the amounts of dividend paid over the last couple of years can be found on our Investor Relations pages.

Who is ABN AMRO's independent auditor?
Ernst & Young Accountants in Amsterdam.

How is ABN AMRO rated by the major rating agencies?

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Management

Who is in the Managing Board and what is each member responsible for?

For more information, see our Managing Board page.

How many members are in the Supervisory Board?
The Supervisory Board of ABN AMRO consists of 12 members.

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Sponsoring

What are ABN AMRO's major sponsoring projects?

• Ajax, the Dutch soccer team (since 1990)
  
• ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournaments (since 1973)
  
• 'In Sight': photography from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
  
• 'Discovering Jongkind': a large exhibition devoted to painter Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891). It started at the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague and moved to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 2004.
  
• Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney (since 1997)

For more information, see our Sponsoring section.

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Contact information

How can I automatically receive press releases from ABN AMRO?
If you want to automatically receive corporate press releases of ABN AMRO, please subscribe to our Mailing List.

Who can I contact if I have a press related question?
Please send an e-mail to Pressrelations@nl.abnamro.com via our contact form or call the press office in Amsterdam at: +31 20 628 8900.

Who can I contact if I have a general ABN AMRO question?
Please send an e-mail via our general contact form to corporate.communications@nl.abnamro.com.

• If you are looking for a person or department at the global headquarters in Amsterdam, you can call the switchboard at +31 20 628 93 93.
  
• If you are looking for a person or department at the London office, you can call the switchboard at +44 20 7678 8000.
  
• If you are looking for a person or department at the Chicago office, you can call the switchboard at +1 312 9042000.
  
• If you are looking for a person or department at the Sao Paulo office, you can call the switchboard at +55 11 31742600.
  
• If you are a (potential) account holder in the Netherlands, you can call 0900 - 0024, or +31 10 2820724 from abroad, or visit the web site www.abnamro.nl.

Who can I contact if I am an investor or analyst and I would like to know more about the ABN AMRO organisation and/or ABN AMRO shares?
Please send an e-mail via our contact form to Investorrelations@nl.abnamro.com or call the investor relations department in Amsterdam at: +31 20 628 7835.