Tag: CaixaBank SA

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 08:03 UTC

  Catalonia customers withdrawing symbolic sums of money from banks leaving the region

  

  Bank customers in Catalonia are withdrawing symbolic amounts of money from financial institutions that have moved their official headquarters to other locations in Spain amid a political crisis over the region’s independence bid.

• Saturday, October 7th 2017 - 08:15 UTC

  Madrid decree makes it easier for companies to move location out of Catalonia

  

  Spain’s government has approved a decree that would make it easier for companies in Catalonia to move the location of their official registration out of the region. The move will allow the relocation of Caixabank, Spain’s third largest bank by assets, before next week, when separatist authorities in Catalonia want to declare independence.

• Friday, October 6th 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  Top Spanish bank moving out of Catalonia because of independence scare

  

  Sabadell, the Barcelona-based bank, said it will move its legal base out of Catalonia following threats by the region's leaders to declare independence. Spain's fifth-biggest bank said it would start the process on Friday to move its legal domicile to Alicante. Its headquarters and employees will remain in Barcelona.

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 - 05:50 UTC

  Barclays moves out of Spain; sells operations to CaixaBank for 800 million Euros

  

  Spain’s third-biggest lender, CaixaBank SA agreed to buy Barclays Plc banking operations in the country for about 800 million Euros (1.1 billion) in cash to expand its business as economic growth picks up. The sale includes consumer, wealth and investment management and corporate banking businesses, Barcelona-based CaixaBank said in a statement.