Banco Santander, the eurozone's biggest lender, said on Thursday that its bottom line shrank in the third quarter, hit by the cost of integrating smaller rival Banco Popular, which it acquired in June.
The Spanish state may only retrieve 28 percent of the multi-billion-euro aid granted to banks during the crisis, the central bank said on Friday, despite past government pledges that it wouldn't cost "one euro" to the taxpayer.
Spain's Ibex 35 stock market index suffered a steep fall as trading opened on Monday morning, losing 3.2 percent of its value to fall below 10,000 points - its lowest level since January.
She speaks an impressive five languages, studied at Harvard Business School, became CEO of a major UK bank by age 50, she's a mum and she managed to outrank Queen Elizabeth II. Meet Ana Patricia Botín: the Spaniard who made it into the top 20 of Forbes magazine's most powerful women list.
Spain's third-biggest lender CaixaBank said on Tuesday it would launch a full takeover for Portuguese rival BPI, just months after it bought Barclays' Spanish operations, as it seeks to expand abroad.
If your hopes of looking for work in Spain have been dented by news of sky-high unemployment rates, ever-decreasing salaries and long working hours, think again.
