RBS's $133B vis-a-vis RBC's $69B Market Capitalization

The Globe and Mail, Eric Reguly, 18 May 2007The takeover battle for ABN Amro, the biggest financial services contest in European history, is stuck in the mud. What a mess. Barclays has agreed to buy the Dutch bank. A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland -- better known as RBS -- is threatening to upset the merger. The whole thing is tied up in Dutch commercial court and a group of investors