ABN AMRO Bank N.V. - Canada Branch

ABN AMRO Holding N.V. is one of the largest bank holding companies in the world, with total assets of EUR 987 billion and shareholders' equity of EUR 25.8 billion at the end of December 2006, 107,000 employees and a market capitalization of EUR 45 billion. ABN AMRO Holding N.V.'s operating bank, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., is the third largest bank in its home market of the Netherlands, with a target market of affluent customers and larger small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) commercial accounts. Through its ownership of LaSalle Bank in Illinois and Michigan, it is the third largest bank in the U.S. Midwest and the third largest foreign-owned bank group in the United States. ABN AMRO Holding N.V. also owns the fourth largest privately owned banking group in Brazil and the eighth largest bank in Italy.