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Following the merger of state-owned Bankia and private CaixaBank, Criteria Caixa (and, therefore, the "la Caixa" Foundation) held 30.012% of the bank. On the other hand, the Government of Spain , through the FROB and its company BFA Tenedora de Acciones, became a major shareholder of the company with 16.117%.
The bank was founded by Emperor Pedro II on 12 January 1861, as Caixa Economica e Monte de Socorro in Rio de Janeiro as a financial institution destined to collect national savings, mostly from the poor. Over the years, several similar institutions were created, until most of them were merged into present-day Caixa Econômica in 1967.
The foundation commonly dates itself to the 1990 creation of the Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona (Spanish: Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, "La Caixa") as a merger of the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Barcelona founded in 1844 and commonly known as Caja de Barcelona, founded in 1844, with the Caja de Pensiones para la Vejez y de Ahorros de Cataluña y Baleares, founded ...
This is a list of banks in Spain.Spain has 10 banking groups that are directly supervised by the European Central Bank.As of September 2021, the "big four" in Spain are:
Goirigolzarri was president and COO of BBVA from 2001 to 2009, when he early-retired after working at the bank for 30 years. [4] He received a lifelong pension of €3 million per year (starting from age 65), which caused an avalanche of public criticism. [5] On 9 May 2012, he became the president of Bankia, the fourth largest bank of Spain. [6]
Maria Rita Serrano (born 23 June 1968) is a Brazilian administrator, employee of Caixa Econômica Federal since 1989 and chairwoman of the bank from 9 January to 28 October 2023 [1] [2] during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, being the fourth woman to head the institution.
Caja General de Ahorros de Canarias in Barcelona.. In Spain, a savings bank (Spanish: caja de ahorros or informally just caja, Catalan: caixa d'estalvis, Galician: caixa de aforros, informally 'caixa', Basque: aurrezki kutxa) is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and granting loans.
La Caixa (La Caixa Headquarters) is a complex of three buildings, including a skyscraper in Barcelona, Spain. Completed in 1974. La Caixa 1 has 26 floors and rises 85 meters, [1] La Caixa 2 has 14 floors and rises 48 meters. [2] La Caixa 3 is not a tall building, and is in the form of a cube. The buildings are headquarters of La Caixa bank.