Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is a multinational Spanish banking group. BBVA is the second largest bank in Spain and 15th largest financial institution in the western world with a market capitalization of over 61 billion euros. The bank has recently focused on overseas expansion, and now operates in 40 countries.
Banco Sabadell is Spain's fourth largest banking group, which is comprised of different banks, brands, subsidiaries and part-owned companies covering all areas of the financial business sector under a common denominator: professional performance and quality.
Banco Santander is the fourth largest bank in the world by profits and eighth by stock market capitalisation. In 2009, its net ordinary profits were over EUR 8.9 billion, 1% more than the previous year, and it distributed more than EUR 4.9 billion in dividends to shareholders. With these figures, the Group achieved the target set at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 19th 2009 to maintain its profits and the dividend payout.
A financial institution of a social nature, privately managed and the controlling institution of the "la caixa" group, which main company is a savings bank.
"Caja Espana de Inversiones, Caja de Ahorro y Monte de Piedad" is a Savings Bank formed in 1990 through the union of five Spanish savings banks. Caja Espana is a financial institution with a national projection which basic purpose is to provide its clients, upon a basis of efficiency, with high quality financial services, contributing to the economical, environmental and social well-being of the society as well as its development, with a firm determination of promoting the professional development of the staff.
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