Tag: Catalonia banks

• 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.

• 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.