The Canadian dollar ( as a regional reserve currency for banking ) has been an important part of the British, French and Dutch Caribbean state's economies and finance systems since the 1950s.

It was in 1807 that Dutch land investors, while surveying a giant track of land they purchased from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, discovered this most perfect valley and named it in honor of the Dutch banking family, the De Smeths, who financed their land investments.

The Dutch " pioneered short selling, option trading, debt-equity swaps, merchant banking, unit trusts and other speculative instruments, much as we know them.

The Canadian dollar ( as a regional reserve currency for banking ) has been an important part of the British, French and Dutch Caribbean states ' economies and finance systems since the 1950s.

ING Group traces its roots to two major Insurance companies in the Netherlands and the banking services of the Dutch government.

The actions are in line with EU demands to split the Group's banking and insurance operations as a condition of Dutch state aid ( see below ).

And though it was the birthplace of banking, by the 1500s German and Dutch banks began taking away business.

* An increasing demand for capital in the Dutch industry, which in turn led to higher concentration in the banking business

The NHM continued to developed more and more banking and financing operations with its branch network and it went on to became one of the primary ancestors of ABN AMRO bank when in 1964 it merged with the Dutch Twentsche Bank to form Algemene Bank Nederland ( ABN ).

* 2008 The Dutch State nationalizes the Dutch activities of Belgian-Dutch banking and insurance company Fortis, which had come in solvability problems due to the international financial crisis.

** ABN Amro, formed from the Netherlands banking operations of Fortis, now owned by the Dutch government

The war with Spain led many financiers and traders to emigrate from Antwerp a major city in Flanders and then one of Europe's most important commercial centres, to Dutch cities, particularly Amsterdam, which became Europe's foremost centre for shipping, banking, and insurance.

After receiving a bailout from the Benelux governments, its Belgian banking operations were sold to BNP Paribas, while its insurance and banking subsidiaries in the Netherlands were nationalised by the Dutch government and renamed ABN AMRO.

On October 3, in a press conference ( at 18. 00h ), broadcast live on television, the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch Minister of Finance Wouter Bos and DNB-president Nout Wellink announced that the Dutch government would purchase the Dutch banking and insurance divisions of Fortis for € 16. 8 billion ($ 23. 3 billion ).

At the time, only a verbal agreement, on broad outlines, had been made and when it became time to put things to paper they realized that their € 4 billion was only going to buy them a 50 % share in a company they were only mildly interested in ( Fortis Bank Nederland, later sold for € 5 billion total ; instead of all Dutch Fortis holdings including ABN-AMRO and the Dutch insurance company ) and that the Belgians for their € 4. 7 billion were getting a 50 % share in the overall banking holding ( including not only Fortis Bank Nederland and Luxembourg, but also Fortis Investments and ABN-AMRO ).

The initial investment by Belgium (€ 4. 7 billion ), and presumably that by Luxembourg (€ 2. 5 billion ), and the price paid for the Dutch banking activities (€ 12. 8 billion ) remain with Fortis Bank SA / NV, while those received for the insurance companies (€ 4 billion from the Dutch and € 5. 73 billion from BNP Paribas ) go to Fortis Group.

Dutch grocery chain Albert Heijn and mail-order giant Neckermann Shopping were early adopters and introduced award-winning TeleCD-i applications for their home-shopping and home-delivery services.

An alternate theory is that is comes from the Dutch words wal ' shore ' and reus ' giant '.

The day before the tour many Dutch flock to Leeuwarden to enjoy the party atmosphere that surrounds the event ; that evening, called the " Nacht van Leeuwarden " ( Night of Leeuwarden ), becomes a giant city-wide street party ( Frisians, who have a reputation of surliness, are said to thaw when it freezes ).

A fourth species, the giant peccary ( Pecari maximus ) was recently described from the Brazilian Amazon by Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen.

" Risi is probably akin to " rise ," and so means " towering person " ( akin to German Riese, Dutch reus, archaic Swedish rese, giant ).

The island was given the name " Rotte nest " ( meaning " rat nest " in the Dutch language ) by Dutch captain Willem de Vlamingh who spent six days exploring the island from 29 December 1696, mistaking the quokkas for giant rats.

In 1696 Willem de Vlamingh mistook them for giant rats and named the island " Rotte nest ", Dutch for " rat nest ".

" In April 2012 Harney joined the board of car fleet insurer Euro Insurances, an Irish subsidiary of Dutch insurance giant Leaseplan.

The Japanese network later sued Dutch entertainment giant Endemol, which produces " Wipeout ".

* Bossche bol, a giant profiterole from the Dutch city of Den Bosch

Cultivars of Mespilus germanica that are grown for their fruit include ' Hollandia ', ' Nottingham ', and ' Russian ', ' Dutch ' ( also known as ' Giant ' or ' Monstrous '), ' Royal ', ' Breda giant ', and ' Large Russian '

The company is owned by Saeco International Group, a division of Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips.

In November a giant B & W blow up of the fantastic day-glo pink, orange & blue offset litho print over gold foil, Hapshash / Osiris poster featuring Hendrix dressed as a Native American, wearing a feathered War Bonnet, was used as a background to his appearance on Hoepla, a controversial Dutch TV show.

BREIN is known for shutting down Dutch eDonkey 2000 link giant ShareConnector in December 2004.

* Philips Records, a record label founded by the Dutch electronics giant, Philips

The Super Stop & Shop in Yonkers, NYThe chain was acquired by the American branch of Dutch food giant Ahold in 1995.

TDK also sponsored Dutch giant Ajax for several years in 1980s.

Carlo Brauer, an excavator operator at the ENCI ( First Dutch Cement Industry ) quarry, discovered the giant teeth of the fossil creature in the shovel of his digger.

In early 2009, the team's midfielder Zhou Haibin was signed by Dutch giant PSV Eindhoven on a free transfer.

For one year he was board member of the Dutch electronics giant Philips by invitation of Cor Boonstra, then Philips ' president.

2008 was also the first year large Dutch international corporations ING Group and TNT NV sponsored the event.

* ING Group, a Dutch financial institution with operations worldwide

ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks.

In the late-2000s financial crisis ING Group, together with most other major banks in the Netherlands, took a capital injection from the Dutch Government in 2008 as part of its response to the crisis.

In October 2008, in a move to increase its core Tier 1 capital ratio above 8 %, ING Group accepted a capital injection plan from the Dutch Government.

ING was the leading advisor in the Dutch M & A league tables in 2009.

ING is a major global sponsor of football / soccer, sponsoring the Royal Dutch Football Association and the Asian Football Confederation ( AFC ).

Anton ( Ton ) Alberts ( July 6, 1927 – August 16, 1999, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch architect best known for the ING Bank ( 1982 ) in the Bijlmer district of Amsterdam and the Gas Corporation headquarters in Groningen.

* NRG ( Nederlandse Reassurantie Groep ) – Berkshire acquired NRG, a Dutch life reinsurance company, from ING Group in December 2007.

* United Kingdom – available since February 2008 ; accounts transferred to Dutch bank ING Direct on 8 October 2008

The Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden ( since 1991 ING Bank ) agreed to sponsor the building of a house on site.

The Dutch ING Group operations in Mexico are performed through ING Mexico.