BARCELONA | By CaixaBank research team | A significant narrowing of spreads has been decisive in reopening a window for corporate bond issuance in the periphery countries which is still open today.
MADRID | By JP Marín Arrese | Depriving the ECB of the capacity to deal with ailing entities does undermine its authority as a supervisor in a Banking Union.
MADRID | By Raimundo Poveda, former director general of banking regulation at Bank of Spain | Liquidity ratios may be Basel next error: a compulsory ratio of liquidity that shall enter into force in 2015.
SANTANDER | By A. Laso | Spanish banks association’s president is optimistic about weak entities paying back future help packages after they are restructured into the private sector.
LONDON/MADRID | To compensate the news of a banking bailout limitation, the Eurogroup today may bring up a few tricks: the protection of SMEs’ non-guaranteed deposits of up to €100,000.
MADRID | By Julia Pastor | Car components company CIE Automotive will merge its forging plants in Spain and Lithuania with Indian group Mahindra. The resultant company will be named Mahindra CIE. This strategic alliance will enable CIE to double its current sales of €1.6 million.
SAO PAULO | By Marcus Nunes | This “resumption of growth” view has spread like ‘bush fire’. But why?
MADRID | By Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, analyst at XTB | valenciaplaza.com | Has the Japanese experiment failed? Under the stress of some political pressures, Japan may have rushed into an expansion of its monetary base without all the due protections.
MADRID | By Luis Martí | The German government could also be drawn in as an expropriator of sorts: it is still an issuer of debt at a real yield equally negative for their nationals.
MADRID | The Abengoa-Triton deal values Befesa at an enterprise value of €1,075 million.