Luxembourg, 25/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has just announced the outsourcing of the derivatives collateral management activities, which will be entrusted to ABN AMRO, while ABN AMRO Mellon was selected to act a global custodian of all the collateral bonds. ABN AMRO will act as the EIB's collateral agent and, as such, will be responsible marking collateral to market prices, with managing margin calls, returns and substitutions, as well as with ensuring related settlement services. Valuation of derivatives transactions will remain in-house in order to preserve confidentiality for the EIB's counterparties. ABN-AMRO has been chosen by the EIB as a supplier that can combine collateral management services with global custody, allowing full outsourcing of the activities related to the maintenance of a large collateral portfolio necessary for derivatives trading.