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...March 24 to 31, date of San Ginés concert TBA; further information here April Sport Mutua Madrid Open, Caja Mágica The clay courts of Caja Mágica will be buzzing this April for the return of the city...
...Luis Martínez Montes Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial, San Lorenzo del Escorial, near Madrid Located in a 16th-century monastery on the southern face of Mount Abanto, not far...
...Mr Blesa was chairman of Caja Madrid from 1996 to 2009. Caja Madrid and later Bankia gave their board members and executives credit cards that were used without control....
...According to prosecutors, Caja Madrid and later Bankia gave their board members and executives credit cards that were used without control....
...“Fainé was a big believer in the caja model,” says a Madrid banker. “The caja was an institution that served a social purpose that also happened to be a bank....
...All served on one of Caja Madrid’s boards or on the lender’s cash-rich charitable foundation....
...Saeta Yield, a new renewable energy company spun out of Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, the Spanish infrastructure group, began publicly trading in Madrid on Monday as enthusiasm for new equity...
...Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, which also has interests in infrastructure and energy, is still undergoing a restructuring process that has entailed cutting jobs and selling assets....
...Mr Blesa is under investigation for his role in the 2008 takeover of a troubled US bank that left Caja Madrid nursing a sharp loss....
...The BME encompasses the stock exchanges of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia and the country’s main derivatives exchange....
...A court in Madrid on Wednesday sent Miguel Blesa, the ex-president of Caja Madrid, back to prison – less than a month after he posted a €2.5m bail to avoid spending a second night in jail....
...On Friday, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Spain’s deputy prime minister, said the government would respect the decision of the judge and reiterated the measures taken by Madrid to reform and depoliticise the...
...While La Caixa in 2011 listed its banking assets to create Caixabank, its savings bank foundation remains the last large caja in Spain after the nationalisation of Bankia, which wiped out the caja foundations...
The Spanish bank should improve its capital further
...been in the works for months has been reworked in a bid to strike an agreement ahead of September 7, when Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, is expected in Buenos Aires for the formal selection of Madrid...
...These include 76,000 empty homes, 6,300 rented homes, 14,900 plots of land and 84,300 loans, Mr de Guindos said this month....
...Aviva felt the merger breached the joint venture’s distribution arrangement as Caja Madrid – the largest savings bank within the new merged lender – already had a similar agreement in place with Mapfre,...
...Catalunya Banc had to be bailed out by Madrid last year after revealing big losses on its real estate portfolio....
...Banco Financiero y de Ahorros, the lender’s unlisted parent group, was valued at a negative €10.44bn....
...The products were sold by Caja Madrid before it was merged with other savings banks to create Bankia....
...According to the Frob, Bankia now has a negative “economic value” of €4.15bn, while Banco Financiero y de Ahorros, the lender’s unlisted parent group, is valued at a negative €10.44bn....
...The probe into Bankia, which was dominated by Mr Rato’s Caja Madrid and Bancaja of Valencia, has also named other executives at the bank who were leading figures in the PP....
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