Number of branches of ING, Rabobank and ABN Amro in the Netherlands 2018

This statistic shows the total number of branches of ING, Rabobank and ABN Amro in the Netherlands as of early 2018. At the beginning of 2018, Rabobank was the Dutch bank with the most domestic branches in the country, with 446 offices. ING and ABN Amro had fewer branches, both reaching between 242 and 202 offices respectively.

Banking is an important service industry in the Netherlands, being responsible for the funding of both international as well as domestic trade. Dutch banking has two important characteristics. Firstly, only a few large institutions dominate its financial markets. In 2015, for example, the five largest Dutch credit institutions, which includes ING, Rabobank and ABN Amro, held approximately 85 percent of the total assets. Secondly, the Dutch banking sector is one of the most concentrated in Europe.

In the period between 2007 and 2016, the total number of banks in the Netherlands decreased from 99 banks in 2007 to 50 banks in 2016. In this period of time, the size of the banking sector as a whole in the Netherlands decreased. The total number of bank offices, for example, reached a total number of approximately 3,400 in 2008. In 2016, this was less than 1,700.