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Santander Seguros is the bank's insurance arm, and Santander Sociedad de Bolsa, a brokerage house, its sole subsidiary. The bank also has a majority stake in Visa Argentina, Gire (a wire transfer service), Banelco , and Interbanking (an offshore banking unit), among others. [1]
By 2014, following Cristina Fernández de Kirchner use of central bank reserves to prop up the peso, the country had very low foreign reserves and a high inflation. [3] After the 2015 elections, President Mauricio Macri hoped that by lifting the extreme currency controls it would help spark a wave of foreign investment that would help battle ...
Banco Santander S.A. trading as Santander Group (UK: / ˌ s æ n t ən ˈ d ɛər,-t æ n-/ SAN-tən-DAIR, -tan-, US: / ˌ s ɑː n t ɑː n ˈ d ɛər / SAHN-tahn-DAIR, [2] [3] Spanish: [ˈbaŋko santanˈdeɾ]), is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Santander, with operative offices in Madrid.
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (Spanish: Banco Central de la República Argentina, BCRA) is the central bank of Argentina, being an autarchic entity.. Article 3 of the Organic Charter lists the objectives of this Institution: “The bank aims to promote, to the extent of its powers and within the framework of the policies established by the national government, monetary stability ...
Banco Real branch, in Belo Horizonte. Banco Real was a Brazilian bank, owned by Spain's Banco Santander. ABN AMRO had owned the bank but in October 2007, a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland that also included Banco Santander and Belgium's Fortis, acquired ABN AMRO and proceeded to dismember it.
Long a significant supplier of domestic lending in a credit-tight economy, the bank attempted—with only partial success—to revive the local credit market during the tenure of Gabriela Ciganotto, who stated the main goal of the bank in her inauguration speech in 2006 as "putting [the bank] at the service of production, especially small and medium businesses, and not of speculation."
According to Barómetro de las Américas done by the Latin American Public Opinion Project, in Argentina, 15% of the population has been asked for a bribe by a police agent. [6] This finding is backed by the Latinobarómetro 2008, which found that 59% of Argentines believe that it is possible to bribe a policeman in order to avoid a fine or ...
Citibank Argentina was established in 1914 as the Buenos Aires branch of the National City Bank of New York, and the first of any United States bank in Argentina. The bank remained a secondary name in Argentine banking; but earned renown for the quality of its services: its Paylink payment processing network made it the first bank in Argentina to earn an ISO 9000 (1997), and in 2002 ...