LaSalle: Fred to the rescue?

There’s not a lot Rijkman Groenink can do to undo the mess he created when he agreed to sell ABN Amro’s LaSalle unit to Bank of America without consulting the Dutch bank’s shareholders, potentially shutting out a bid from a Royal Bank of Scotland consortium that’s higher than the one the Dutch have on the table from Barclays. ABN’s boss can only hope that someone else does it for him. So his heart must have leapt at news that Royal Bank of Scotland is trying to cut a deal with BoA that might unb...