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...In a private email published by Sabadell on Wednesday, the BBVA chair said the bank had “no room” to improve the offer....
...The latest bid had sent BBVA’s share price lower before the board of the smaller bank formally rejected the all-stock offer on Monday....
...Shares in BBVA fell a further 5 per cent on Thursday, a drop that left the offer valuing each Sabadell share at €2.02 and the bank at €10.94bn. Shares in Sabadell climbed 4.5 per cent....
...Banco Sabadell has accused its rival BBVA of breaking Spanish takeover law in an escalation of tensions between the two banks at the centre of a deal battle....
...Spain-based bank Sabadell has rejected a €12bn takeover approach from its larger rival BBVA, saying the proposed deal “significantly undervalues” its standalone growth prospects and potential....
...The following day Sabadell rejected the offer from BBVA, saying it “significantly undervalues” the growth prospects of the lender, which owns UK high street bank TSB....
...But, he warned, BBVA’s all-share deal was the bank’s best offer. “BBVA has no room to improve its economic terms,” he insisted. “We have already used up all the room we had.”...
...Spanish lender BBVA chair told bid target Banco Sabadell that it had “no room” to improve its €12bn takeover offer for the smaller bank the day before Sabadell rejected it....
...In the meantime, an alternative could be Atom Bank, the struggling UK digital bank that counts BBVA as its largest shareholder. The Spanish bank put new capital into Atom last year....
...Today a combination would create the country’s second-largest bank, worth almost €70bn. BBVA may have been spurred to act by rumours that Sabadell might itself move on smaller peer Unicaja....
...Spanish bank BBVA has approached its smaller rival Sabadell about a potential takeover that would create a lender valued at €70bn....
...Spanish bank BBVA has approached TSB owner Banco Sabadell about a potential takeover to create a €70bn lender in what would be one of the biggest European banking deals in years....
...Whatever suggested by its response to Bernanke’s open-ended menu, the Bank of England looks to have decided to go down the route of using a “semi-structural model” instead of COMPASS — its Central Organising...
...Spanish bank BBVA has offered a 30 per cent price premium to TSB-owner Banco Sabadell in a takeover bid that values its local rival at more than €12bn....
...A Spanish bank goes hostile It’s not every day you see a hostile banking deal....
...Sabadell and BBVA: Shares in Spanish bank BBVA have dropped 5 per cent after it made a hostile offer for smaller rival Banco Sabadell, triggering a rebuke from the Spanish government....
...Big share price moves in Europe today include Spanish banks Banco de Sabadell and BBVA, and UK medical technology company Smith & Nephew: BBVA: Shares in the Spanish bank dropped 8 per cent, after Tuesday...
...Spanish bank BBVA has launched a hostile offer for Banco Sabadell after the board of its domestic rival rejected an approach....
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...The BoE now urgently needs to invest money and staff time into modernising software, Bernanke said, before “replacing or, at minimum, thoroughly revamping” its economic model, known as Compass, in the longer...
...Orszag was one of five co-founders which included his brother Peter Orszag, the economist who is now the chief executive of the investment bank Lazard....
...Also in the group is Manuel Sánchez Rodriguez, a former top executive at Spanish bank BBVA and a board member, since 2018, of the US government-backed mortgage insurance company Fannie Mae....
...Since then, its shares have climbed 5 per cent, underperforming Spanish rival BBVA but doing better than CaixaBank. On Monday Santander’s share price rose nearly 3 per cent....
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