MADRID | The Corner Team | Three Spanish financial institutions set the example of the country’s incipient recovery just after the banking bailout program came to a clean end: Santander gained 90% more than last year; Caixabank, 118% and BBVA, 30%.
BARCELONA | CaixaBank reported Friday a poor attributed January to March net income of €166 million as a result of provisions enforced by the Spanish government, set to clean up the balance sheets of the country’s banking sector. For the Catalan entity, the figure means an 80.1-percent cut down comparing to the first quarter of 2011 and bears the scars of large write-downs of €3.735 billion. CaixaB ank said that, as…
Should Banco Santander and BBVA watch out for this one? The absorption of Banca Cívica, approved on Monday by Caixabank’s board, will create the leading bank in the Spanish market, with assets of €342 billion, stock market capitalization in excess of €16 billion, 14 million customers and an average Spanish market share in deposits of 14.0%, in customer loans of 13.4% and in total assets of 10.5%. CaixaBank will become…
Two Spanish supersector leaders, as Dow Jones and Sam call them, made it into this year’s Dow Jones Sustainability Index: they are Enagas and Repsol. If you have not heard about this list until now, here is a briefing: Launched in 1999, the DJSI are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. Today, the index family has approximately USD 8 billion in assets under management…
Two Spanish supersector leaders, as Dow Jones and Sam call them, made it into this year’s Dow Jones Sustainability Index: they are Enagas and Repsol. If you have not heard about this list until now, here is a briefing: Launched in 1999, the DJSI are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. Today, the index family has approximately USD 8 billion in assets under management…
We will analyze the financial situation of CaixaBank after its re-organization, its results, assessment and prospects to determine whether this is an interesting investment opportunity in the long-term. Company Description CaixaBank was founded after the re-organization of La Caixa business, approved on 24th February by both Criteria’s and Caixa’s boards. The process ended on July 1st with the disappearance of Criteria, which had been the holding of the subsidiary of…