Banco Popular
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Stocks rise on earnings as sterling falls
- Markets
- July 23, 2019, 18:05
A host of upbeat earnings pushed US stocks higher on Tuesday and world stocks rose in anticipation of central bank easing, while sterling fell on the(...)

Santander restructuring costs cause 18% dip in profit
- Financial Services
- July 23, 2019, 09:42
Spanish lender Santander reported an 18 per cent fall in second-quarter net profit on Tuesday hurt by one-off restructuring costs from its acquisition(...)

ECB considers new tool to help ailing banks
- Financial Services
- April 9, 2018, 13:38
The European Central Bank is considering a new policy tool that would allow it to inject cash into banks that are being rescued from the threat of in(...)

ECB sets new rules on bank capital and cash
- Financial Services
- March 2, 2018, 10:30
The European Central Bank published new guidelines on Friday defining how euro zone banks should calculate how much capital and cash they must hold fo(...)

Philip Lane: From star pupil to ECB hopeful with Nobel potential
- Economy
- February 16, 2018, 06:00
Trinity College Dublin economics professor John O’Hagan didn’t think much of it when he hadn’t heard in weeks from the third-year student he’d hired i(...)

Investors file 51 lawsuits against EU for shutting Banco Popular
- Financial Services
- August 30, 2017, 12:28
Disgruntled investors have filed 51 lawsuits against European Union regulators for shutting Spain’s Banco Popular, marking one of the largest legal ch(...)

European banking union is stealthily redrawing the political map
- Financial Services
- July 25, 2017, 16:35
In our excitement over what is new, we often miss what is important. The election of Emmanuel Macron has triggered expectations of a Franco-German ent(...)

Banco Popular victim of large-scale run, says ECB
- Financial Services
- June 8, 2017, 16:10
Banco Popular was the victim of the euro zone’s first large-scale bank run, which triggered the urgent need for regulators to intervene and engineer i(...)

European banks gain while investors await UK election
- Markets
- June 7, 2017, 20:52
Banks and utilities supported European stocks on Wednesday, as there was a sense of relief among investors that Spain’s struggling Banco Popular was b(...)

Santander buys troubled Banco Popular for €1
- Financial Services
- June 7, 2017, 19:10
Santander has purchased fellow Spanish lender Banco Popular for €1, after Brussels warned the bank was on the verge of collapse. Banco Popular’s shar(...)