Working Visit to Rabobank Netherlands

Working Visit to Rabobank Netherlands

Introduction

Rabobank Group is a financial services provider operating on the basis of co-operative principles. It offers a wide range of financial services and products. Its origins are in the local loan cooperatives that were founded in the Netherlands more than a century a ago by enterprising people who had virtually no access to external financing.


Rabobank Group

Rabobank Group comprioses 188 independent local co-operative Rabobanks with over 1,200 branches in the Netherlands plus their central Rabobank Netherlands and international subsidiaries. Rabobank serves more than nine million individuals and corporate clients in the Netherlands. It employs 56,000 staff and is represented in 42 countries.

Rabobank Group has Triple A rating awarded by Standard & Poor's. In terms of Tier 1 capital, Rabobank is among the world's 20 largest financial institutions.


Local Rabobanks and Rabobank Nederland

The local Rabobanks and their clients make up Rabobank Group's co-operative core business. Clients can become members of their co-operative local Rabobank. In turn, local Rabobanks are members and shareholders of Rabobank Nederland.

On behalf of the Dutch Central Bank, Rabobank Nederland advises and supervises the solvency, liquidity and administrative organisation of the local Rabobanks. Rabobank Nederland acts as an wholesale bank and as a bankers' bank to the Group and is the holding company of specialised subsidiaries.

Rabobank Group combines the best of two worlds: the local involvement and personal touch of the local Rabobanks with the expertise and economies of scale of Rabobank Nederland and its subsidiaries.


Mission and Ambition

Rabobank puts the common interests of people and communities first. Rabobank aims to be a driver and an innovator that contributes to the sustainable development of prosperity and well being. Its goal is to help people and communities achieve their present and future ambitions. Strengthening mutual collaboration and supplying the best financial solutions are the means to achieve that end.

Based on this mission, Rabobank Group's ambition is to be the largest, best and most customer-driven and innovative financial institution in the Netherlands. With their co-operative structure and membership of more than 1.5 million, the local Rabobanks are firmly rooted in society. In the Netherlands, Rabobank justifiably call itself committed, near-you and a leader. Rabobank plays an active, leading role near by them, innovating, inspiring, competent and visionary are core concepts in this context. Rabobank is a personal bank - a bank with a human face. The bank gets to business starting from the human aspect: human 'orange'first, and then to business 'blue', the two core colours of Rabobank's corporate logo.

In international environment, Rabobank Group aspires to be the best food & agri bank, with a strong presense in the world's major food & agriculture countries. The Group aims at global excellence in sustainable entrepreneurship and banking. Rabobank Group will further integrate corporate social responsibility in itsncore activities.


Rabobanks's Values

In the Netherlands, Rabobank Group offers all the financial services needed by clients as they participate in an economy driven modern society. The Group strives to ensure that its services are continually adjusted and updated so that they always meet the needs of individuals and businesses alike.

Rabobank believes that sustainable growth in prosperity and well-being requires careful nurturing of natural resources and the living environment and it aims to contribute to this development with its activities. Rabobank respects the culture and traditions of the countries where it operates without losing sight of its own objectives and values.

In its actions, Rabobank puts its clients best interests first. The bank creates customer value by:
- providing financial services considered best and most appropriate by their clients;
- ensuring continuity in the services provided with a view to the long-term interests of the clients;
- showing commitment to their clients and their environment, so that the bank can contribute to achieving their ambitions.

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