Spain's biggest bank sells headquarters for 1.9 billion euros
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Santander, Spain's biggest bank, said Friday it had agreed to sell its headquarters in Madrid to a consortium led by British real estate firm Propinvest for 1.9 billion euros (2.8 billion US dollars).
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Shareholders in Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano approve the takeover of UK bank Abbey.
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Spanish public works and services group Acciona announced that it had bought 10 percent of Spain's largest electricity company, Endesa, for an estimated 3.38 billion euros (4.33 billion dollars).
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German real-estate financing company Hypo Real Estate has agreed to take over Dublin-headquartered Depfa Bank in a shares-and-cash transaction that values Depfa at US$7.9 billion.
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Santander, the Spanish bank bidding Â£8bn for the UK's Abbey, is selling half its stake in rival Royal Bank of Scotland.
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HBOS, based in Edinburgh, said last month it was considering making an offer for Abbey after Santander, Spain s biggest lender, agreed to buy the London-based bank in Europe s biggest-ever cross- border bank ...
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SANTANDER, the new owner of Abbey National, yesterday unveiled Francisco Gomez-Roldan, the Spanish bank&#39;s chief financial officer, as Abbey&#39;s chief executive as it took another step towards finalising the Â£9bn all-share acquisition.
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The European Union on Wednesday cleared Banco Santander Central Hispano SA&#39;s acquisition of British bank Abbey National PLC for about $14.
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Spanish bank Banco Santander Central   Hispano SAN.MC will pay $651 million to buy a 90 percent   stake in U.S. auto financing company Drive Financial Services,   it said on Monday.
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Santander Central Hispano SA, which last month offered 8.2 billion pounds ($14.9 billion) to buy the UK mortgage lender Abbey National Plc, said it will eliminate 3,000 jobs at the British company.
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Spain's second largest bank, BBVA, reported a 19.5 percent gain in third quarter net earnings Wednesday to 1.339 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) compared with the same period last year despite a rise in credit risk.
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Spain's BBVA buys the Compass Bancshares of the USA for 9.6bn.
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Spain's largest bank, Santander Central Hispano, yesterday removed a major hurdle for Abbey National shareholders ahead of Thursday's shareholder vote on its proposed 8.9billion recommended takeover.
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Grupo Martinsa, a Spanish real estate company, agreed to buy Fadesa Inmobiliaria, another real estate company, for about 4 billion euros ($5.1 billion) to quadruple its land holdings. Martinsa, a closely held company based in Madrid, bid 35.70 euros for each of the remaining shares, 21 percent more than the closing price Wednesday of 29.55 euros. Manuel JovÃ©, chairman of Fadesa, agreed to sell his familyÂs 54.6 percent stake in the company, based in La CoruÃ±a. House prices have been rising in Spain for seven years and the purchase of Fadesa is the fourth acquisition of a real estate company in the country since June.
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The foods division of retailer La Rinascente SpA is being sold to French supermarket retailer Auchan SA in a deal worth 1.06 billion euros (&#36;1.36 billion).
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The takeover of Abbey has cleared a major hurdle after shareholders in Spain&#39;s largest bank voted to approve the deal. At a meeting in Spain, Santander Central Hispano (SCH) investors backed all resolutions
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The UK&#39;s Financial Services Authority approved Santander Central Hispano SA&#39;s 9.4 billion-pound ($17.4 billion) takeover of Abbey National Plc, paving the way for Europe&#39;s biggest cross-border bank merger.