Norbolsa | Banco Santander (SAN) has launched a plan to grow in investment banking in the United States, according to Expansión newspaper. The more than one hundred signings that Santander has made at Credit Suisse and other large investment banks will allow Santander to enter new areas of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financing, stock market and debt. The daily also notes that the bank has special expectations for the leveraged…
The Labour Party has won the UK general election with an absolute majority, ending 14 years of Conservative ‘dominance’. Keir Starmer, the party’s leader and the country’s new prime minister, ousted Rishi Sunak with a landslide victory. With some constituencies still to be confirmed, the count already confirms Labour’s absolute majority (more than 326 seats) by securing more than 400 seats out of 650. The centre-left party is on track…
BBVA is holding an Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting today at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, at which it is expected to approve the takeover bid (hostile takeover bid) for Banco Sabadell, and the capital increase -of 20%- necessary to make the bid, at a ratio of one new BBVA share for every 4.83 Banco Sabadell shares. At the time the offer was made public, this offer represented a premium of…
Alphavalue / Divacons | The Catalan financial institution is restructuring TSB’s costs in the midst of BBVA’s takeover bid. The bank began adjustments in the subsidiary in 4Q23 and now plans to close 36 branches and lay off 250 employees. The takeover bid will not force Sabadell to stop restructuring costs. Sabadell’s management team expects TSB to start to “give joy” from 2025. González- Bueno predicts a “transitional” 2024 for…
Link Securities | Omaha Streetcar Authority, the inter-local agency created between the city of Omaha (Nebraska, United States) and Omaha Metro for the development of the city’s new tramway network project, has chosen Construcción y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) as the company to supply the units that will serve the aforementioned line, according to the digital portal Bolsamania.com. CAF will initially supply six trams with their corresponding parts and special…
Link Securities | The Spanish telecom, through its subsidiary Virgin Media O2, and Vodafone have reached an agreement in the UK to strengthen their mobile network sharing agreement for the next ten years, Expansión newspaper reported yesterday. The deal incorporates the purchase of assets from Vodafone to facilitate a merger with Hutchison subsidiary Three in the country. Perhaps the most novel aspect of the deal is that VMO2, in which…
Gerardo Cuerva, president of Cepyme, the employers’ association for small and medium-sized enterprises, has particularly attacked the latest negotiation on the reduction of working hours, which is just “the latest example of how the government acts unilaterally, without evaluating its measures and to the detriment of business. The truth is that it is proving that there is little room for private enterprise in the face of a government that adopts…
Each tourist spent an average of €1,263 in May, 7.3% more than in 2023. According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received 9.3 million international tourists in May, 11.5% more than in the same month in 2023. In the month analysed, the United Kingdom was the main country of residence of tourists arriving in Spain, with more than 1.9 million tourists and an increase of 5.7% compared to May…
Norbolsa | Airbus (AIR) delivered 67 aircraft in June, bringing the total number of aircraft delivered in the first half of the year to 323, up 2% compared to the first half of last year. In the second quarter it increased deliveries by 4% compared to the same period last year. It intends to slow the ramp-up of production of the flagship A320neo Family, reaching 75 aircraft created monthly in…
Alphavalue / Divacons | The pharmaceutical company launched the new sustainability strategy ‘Act4Impact 2030’ to transform its approach to sustainability, focusing on five main pillars: ‘Planet’, ‘People’, ‘Patients’, ‘Partners’ and ‘Principles’. The ‘Act4Impact’ strategy consists of 20 strategic lines of action that will be monitored over time to assess progress. These include the deployment of its roadmap towards Zero Net Emissions through energy decarbonisation plans, sustainable mobility or supplier engagement…