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European banks were among those taking most points off the index. Banco Santander, which is known as the euro zone's biggest bank by market value, fell 3.4 percent after it posted a 2.8 percent fall in third quarter net profits. The FTS Eurofirst 300...
Tags: European, Banco Santander, european shares
The split paves the way for the British government to recoup some of the money it spent nationalising the besieged bank...The good bank would take deposits, provide new lending and hold some existing mortgages, and would eventually be sold. National Australia...
Tags: Northern Rock, European Commission, royal banks, Lloyds Banking Group, banks group, UK arm, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander
Formula One champions Ferrari are expected to announce Santander as new sponsors today after scheduling a news conference with the Spanish bank at the Italian Grand Prix. Ferrari said their president Luca di Montezemolo and Santander chairman Emilio Botin...
Tags: Ferrari, Banco Santander, Brawn GP, Lewis Hamilton, Ross Brawn
Banco Santander's boast about its "conservative lending policy" appeared to bear fruit yesterday as the Spanish group, which owns several British lenders, reported a sharp increase in profits. Santander's UK earnings surged by nearly a third to £790m,...
Tags: Banco Santander, Spain, net profits
THE following business news is expected tomorrow: Banco Santander, the owner of Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester in the UK, is expected to provide solid first-half numbers. London taxi builder Manganese Bronze will put out...
Tags: net profits, Banco Santander, billion euro, Spain
Banco Santander, the owner of Abbey, Alliance & Leicester, and Bradford & Bingley, saw profits fall 5 per cent in the first quarter of 2009 as provisions against bad debt soared 73 per cent. The Spanish bank, which considers itself the sixth largest in...
Tags: Banco Santander, UK arm of Santander, Abbey Alliance & Leicester, bad debts, Spanish, tax profits
Today we have returned to the subject, I announce the nationalization of Banco de Venezuela to strengthen the national public banking system," Chavez said during a televised meeting with ministers...Chavez ordered the purchase of the bank in July but...
Tags: Venezuela Chavez, Hugo Chávez, Chavez Runs Short, Banco Santander, Grupo Santander, oil prices, opposition leaders, Cuba, santander banking, Spanish
Clients of Banco Santander facing losses from investments with Bernard Madoff filed into the bank's Madrid offices on Monday to discuss its offer of compensation. Not all of them were accepting the deal. "I'm not signing," said José Luis Del Barrio, a...
Tags: Banco Santander, Bernard Madoff
According to the Financial Times, Optimal, Santander's fund-management arm, told its institutional investors in a report last autumn that Madoff had an ability "to find great entry and exit points to benefit investors". US regulators now believe, though,...
Tags: Banco Santander, Bernard Madoff
Spanish banking giant Santander is to axe 1,900 jobs in its three UK businesses next year under efficiency moves, the company announced today. The job cuts will hit staff at Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley, and compulsory redundancies...
Tags: Banco Santander, Alliance & Leicester Abbey, Abbey Alliance & Leicester, Bradford & Bingley, Spanish, giant santander, compulsory redundancies, banks giant