A wooden coastal walkway connecting two cliffs outside the northern Spanish city of Santander collapsed on Tuesday killing five young people and leaving one missing, authorities said.
Two people drowned and another was missing at sea after a fishing boat with 10 people on board was wrecked off Spain's northern coast on Monday, regional authorities said.
Spain's Banco Santander, the eurozone's biggest lender, will slash 1,100 jobs as part of a restructuring following its purchase of smaller rival Banco Popular, unions said Tuesday.
Spanish banking giant Santander said Wednesday
its net profit rose 4.0 percent in 2016 to €6.2 billion euros ($6.7 billion), but Brexit had knocked earnings in Britain by nearly 15 percent.
Spain's Santander, the eurozone's biggest bank, said Wednesday during a meeting with unions that it plans to slash up to 1,200 jobs in its Spanish home market.
Santander, Europe's biggest bank by capitalisation, said on Wednesday its net profit edged up three percent last year to €5.97 billion ($6.5 billion), held back by provisions.
Ana Botín, the Executive Chairman of Banco Santander, has been appointed an honorary Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE), by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for services to the British financial services sector.
Santander, Europe's biggest bank by capitalisation, has posted a 4.7 percent rise in third-quarter profit as growth in Spain offset the impact of a drop in the Brazilian real.
The Spanish bank was fined €1m ($1.1m) for breaching laws against money laundering and terrorism financing and tried to delay authorities from reporting the sanction.
Spanish Santander chief Ana Botín will sit on David Cameron’s new economic advisory council, the only representative from a foreign company to do so, the British government has announced.
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.
The eurozone's biggest bank, Spain's Santander, said on Tuesday its first quarter net profit jumped 32 percent as strengthening economic recovery in its home market boosted revenue.
Spain's Santander, the biggest bank in Europe by market value, on Tuesday named José Antonio Álvarez its new chief executive in a reshuffle after longtime chairman Emilio Botín died.
Santander, the eurozone's biggest bank by market value, said Tuesday its profits jumped by 52.1 percent in the third quarter due to higher earnings in its main markets and lower costs.
The EU's anti-trust regulator ordered Madrid on Wednesday to recover tax breaks given to some of Spain's biggest companies to spur foreign acquisitions.
Santander, the eurozone's biggest bank by market value, said on Thursday its profits jumped by more than a third in the second quarter as its ratio of risky assets eased.
Spain has sold the country's 'failed' Catalunya Bank for just €1.2 billion ($1.62 billion), racking up nearly €12 billion losses in the deal, or around the same figure as that saved by the government with its austerity cuts.
Spain's trade union confederation CCOO has claimed that 40 percent of those employed in the southern region of Andalucia by Santander, Europe's largest bank, take antidepressant medication as a result of pressure at work.
Eight people, including a child, were injured when a cow took fright and bolted during an animal parade in the northern Spanish city of Santander recently.
Spanish banking giant Santander on Tuesday launched a bid to take full ownership of its Brazilian unit in an all-share deal worth up to €4.7 billion ($6.5 billion).
A British financial watchdog on Wednesday said it had fined Spanish banking giant Santander almost €15 million (£12.4 million) for mis-advising customers.
Spain's Santander bank, the largest in the eurozone by market value, reported Thursday a 90.5-percent leap in net profits for 2013, hailing a "turnaround" after enduring years of economic crisis.
