ABN AMRO creates retail division

ABN AMRO Bank Romania, the fifth-largest bank in terms of assets, has brought new managers aboard, in order to keep up with the competition. Thus, Haris Hanif will head the newly-established Retail Division, whereas Martin Bakelaar is the new manager of the Financial Markets Department, replacing Sergiu Manea who has been dispatched to the bank’s London office. Bakelaar, 44, has been working within the Financial Markets Department of ABN AMRO for the past 25 years, at the bank’s branches in Rotterdam, Frankfurt and Bahrain. ZF