
Nout Wellink, president of the Dutch central bank, has come out fighting in response to charges of protectionism six weeks after slamming a UK hedge fund’s attack on ABN Amro as “a bridge too far”.
In February Mr Wellink’s remark, in reaction to demands by The Children’s Investment Fund for the break-up or sale of the Netherlands’ biggest bank, had suggested the country’s top banker would go to any lengths to block the activist shareholder’s proposal.
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