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Shareholders received a total of 57 million euros, reports the newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad ( FD ). A spokesman told the newspaper that Anthos had decided to hand over the banking license

Anthos was a private bank of and for the Brenninkmeijer family, which topped the list of the richest Dutch families of the Quote 500 in 2017. As a descendant of the founders of the clothing giant C & A, the family invests primarily in retail and real estate.

Members of the Brenninkmeijer family could, for example, obtain a Mortgage from Anthos. According to the spokesperson, only the banking activities were stopped so that Anthos could devote itself entirely to individual asset management services for the family and that the banking business now goes through "d & # 39; other banks ".

. The institution falls under the lighter regime for asset managers. Anthos therefore reduced the capital "by the repurchase of own shares"

In 2011, NRC Handelsblad revealed that the bank was exempt from corporation tax because the One of the foundations with which the textile family owns the bank had received charitable status (Anbi). It was finished in 2012.