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The country's biggest lender by domestic assets reported a net profit of 1.28 billion euros ($1.41 billion), ahead of 1.16 billion euros analysts forecast in a Reuters poll. The bank also announced a 500 million euro share buy-back programme that would begin before the end of 2023 and is aimed at distributing capital above the 12% threshold. Last year, the lender bought back 1.8 billion euros of shares. Caixabank's net interest income, earnings on loans minus deposit costs, rose 60.7% year-on-year in the quarter to 2.44 billion euros, above the 2.29 billion euros analysts expected. The lender also said that recent commercial trends implied upside over its more than 30% growth guidance for net interest income in 2023.
Persons: Caixabank, Jesús Aguado, Inti Landauro, Tomasz Janowski Organizations: Thomson Locations: NII, MADRID, Banks, Europe
Spain's fourth-largest bank by market value reported a net profit of 359 million euros ($398 million) for April-June, compared with 179 million euros in the same period last year. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected a net profit of 287 million euros. TSB's net interest income (NII) - earnings on loans minus deposit costs - grew 9.7% year-on-year in the quarter. Sabadell's NII in the quarter rose 30% year-on-year to 1.17 billion euros. Domestic rival Unicaja (UNI.MC) said its net profit rose by around 6% year-on-year in the second quarter, also supported by higher financial margins.
Persons: Spain's, Leopoldo Alvear, Alvear, Sabadell's, Unicaja, Jesús Aguado, Emma Pinedo, Miral Fahmy, Mark Potter, Susan Fenton Organizations: Bank, Sabadell, Reuters, British, TSB, Barclays, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Sabadell, Spain
LONDON/MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - Spain's Santander (SAN.MC) is planning to hire around 150 bankers primarily in the United States as part of its plans to accelerate growth in its investment banking business, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. Santander's global corporate and investment banking chief, Jose M. Linares, discussed the plans in a town hall held in New York last week, the sources said. So far, the bank has hired more than 20 senior investment bankers chiefly in the United States, Reuters has reported. Net profit at the bank's global corporate and investment bank rose 16% year-on-year in the second quarter to 899 million euros. Santander employs currently around 8,000 staff at its global corporate and investment bank.
Persons: Jose M, Linares, Ana Botin, David Hermer, Marco Antonio Achon, Corporate Finance Darren Jones, Steven Geller, Jones, Hector Grisi, Grisi, Jesús Aguado, Andres Gonzalez, Elisa Martinuzzi, David Evans Organizations: Spain's Santander, Credit Suisse, Reuters, Banking, Corporate Finance, Linares, Global, Santander, U.S ., Thomson Locations: MADRID, United States, New York, U.S, Spanish, Mexico, Europe, Latin America, Santander, America
Higher interest rates helped UniCredit (CRDI.MI) strongly beat earnings expectations in the second quarter. Germany's financial regulator BaFin has been calling on banks to raise the amount of money they set aside for bad loans. Deutsche Bank on Wednesday said provisions for bad loans nearly doubled in the second quarter from a year earlier to 401 million euros. Santander's financial chief said bad loans in Brazil may have already peaked. This sent the bank's shares up around 2% on Wednesday, with Jefferies saying that it sees upside potential to net interest income.
Persons: Ralph Orlowski, Lloyd's, Andrea Orcel, BaFin, James von Moltke, UniCredit, Jefferies, Tom Sims, Jane Merriman Organizations: Germany's Deutsche Bank, REUTERS, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Lloyds, JPMorgan, Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, Union, Thomson Locations: Frankfurt, Germany, MILAN, MADRID, Europe, Spain, Santander, Brazil
With 99% of votes counted by 11:45 p.m. (2145 GMT), the opposition People's Party (PP) had 136 seats while Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's ruling Socialists (PSOE) had 122 seats. Reuters Graphics Reuters GraphicsNegotiations by the two blocs to form governments will start after a new parliament convenes on Aug. 17. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a surprise snap election after the left took a drubbing in local elections in May. In the present scenario, Sanchez' PSOE would rely heavily on Catalan separatist parties Junts and ERC or Basque separatists EH Bildu. In 2019, two more elections were held before the PSOE and far-left Podemos agreed to form Spain's first coalition government.
Persons: Pedro Sanchez's, Vox, King Felipe VI, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, Mariano Rajoy, Sanchez, Steve Smith, Pedro Sanchez, Ignacio Jurado, Carlos, Juan Medina, Madrid's Calle Genova, Galo Contreras, we're, Francisco Franco, Teruel Existe, El, Junts, Carles Puigdemont, Podemos, Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, Belen Carreno, Jesus Aguado, Emma Pinedo, Joan Faus, Corina Pons, Charlie Devereux, Nick Macfie, Frances Kerry, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: PSOE, People's Party, Socialists, Reuters Graphics Reuters, European Union Council, Voters, Feijoo's PP, Vox, Carlos III University, People's, REUTERS, Madrid's Calle, PP, Basque Nationalist Party, Teruel, Junts, ERC, Basque, European Council, Foreign Relations, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Spain, swimsuits, Madrid, Madrid's, Burgos, El Pais, Catalan
The recruitment is being overseen by the head of Santander Corporate and Investment Banking, Jose M. Linares, also a former JPMorgan banker. As well as the United States, some new investment bankers will join Santander in Britain and Spain. "This typically has been one of the main issues for growing an investment banking business, given that the capital consumption ... is bigger." The contribution from the overall investment bank to Santander's group's earnings rose to 32% in the first quarter of 2023, from around 20% in 2019. Overall, profits at Santander's corporate and investment bank have risen since 2019 by around 60% to 2.8 billion euros ($3.2 billion) at the end of 2022.
Persons: Ana Botin, Jose M, Linares, Goldman Sachs, Amherst Pierpont, Gonzalo Lopez, Lopez, Christiana Riley, Jose Manuel Linares, Jesús, John O'Donnell, Mark Potter Organizations: Reuters, Spain's, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Santander Corporate, Investment Banking, Santander, Wall, U.S, Deutsche Bank, Thomson Locations: MADRID, LONDON, Santander, United States, Europe, Latin America, Britain, Spain, U.S, America
Data centres are facilities that host IT systems and applications. In April, Brookfield Infrastructure acquired French data centre group Data4 in a deal said to have valued the company at close to 3.5 billion euros, including debt. Asterion formed Nabiax in 2019 through the acquisition of 11 data centres from Telefonica across Spain and Latin America. In March, the group sold its Latin American operations to British infrastructure fund Actis, with a view to focusing on its home market. A sale of Nabiax could help Telefonica pay down debt, a focus for the Spanish telecoms giant.
Persons: Nabiax, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro, Amy, Jo Crowley, Andres Gonzalez, Jesus Aguado, John O'Donnell, Louise Heavens Organizations: Reuters, Infrastructure, Asterion Industrial Partners, BBVA, Citigroup, Telefonica, Brookfield Infrastructure, Thomson Locations: Madrid, Telefonica, Spain, Latin America, British, London
July 10 (Reuters) - Ignacio Gutierrez-Orrantia, one of Citigroup's (C.N) top bankers in Europe, will remain at the bank, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, following media reports that he was set to join Spanish power utility Naturgy (NTGY.MC) as CEO. On Sunday, he had called Naturgy's chairman and CEO Francisco Reynes, two of the people said. Naturgy and Citi declined to comment. After rival Iberdrola (IBE.MC) appointed Armando Martinez as CEO last year, Naturgy’s leadership structure, with the power concentrated in the hands of Reynes, had become an anomaly among large Spanish energy companies. Reporting by Pietro Lombardi, Jesus Aguado and Andres Gonzalez Editing by Mark PotterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Ignacio Gutierrez, Gutierrez, Citigroup's, Francisco Reynes, Naturgy, Iberdrola, Armando Martinez, Pietro Lombardi, Jesus Aguado, Andres Gonzalez, Mark Potter Organizations: Reuters, Citi, Thomson Locations: Europe, Spanish, Middle East, Africa
MADRID, June 22 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will need to raise interest rates by another 25 basis points in July to combat inflation but the path afterwards remains unclear, ECB policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Friday. De Cos added that given the "high uncertainty ... we will continue to take our decisions depending on the data and, in particular, on the aggregate assessment of the inflation outlook, the dynamics of underlying inflation." Euro zone inflation has been moderating for months, courtesy of lower energy prices and the steepest increase in rates in the ECB's 25-year history. But it remains unacceptably high for the ECB at 6.1% in May, with underlying price growth only just starting to slow despite signs economic growth is stagnating. Reporting by Jesús Aguado; additional reporting by Emma Pinedo; editing by David Latona and Conor HumphriesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos, Christine Lagarde, De Cos, Jesús Aguado, Emma Pinedo, David Latona, Conor Humphries Organizations: European Central Bank, policymaker, ECB, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Spanish, Santander
MADRID, June 23 (Reuters) - Spain's competition watchdog urged political parties to give this institution better tools to look into potential anticompetitive practices between banks when setting deposit rates for savers, its chair Cani Fernandez said on Friday. Spanish banks offer the lowest household deposit rates among the euro zone's large economies, igniting demands from the government, supervisors and clients to pass on higher interest rates for savers. "A tacit collusion is a hole in our system of tools to tackle (this issue) in markets with little competition," Fernandez said. She added that other European countries, such as Germany and the UK, had better tools to look into these commercial practices. On Friday, the Bank of Spain Governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos said it was up to the CNMC to look into that matter.
Persons: Cani Fernandez, Fernandez, smartly, Pablo Hernandez de Cos, Jesús Aguado, Emma Pinedo, Kirsten Donovan, Louise Heavens Organizations: Bank of Spain, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Spanish, Santander, Germany
MADRID, June 22 (Reuters) - Recent interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank should be fully transmitted to savers and reflected in higher deposit rates, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday. "A full transmission (of monetary policy) requires the remuneration of savings," De Guindos told a financial event in the northern Spanish city of Santander. Spanish banks on Tuesday however pushed back against a government call to start paying higher rates on deposits. Lenders maintain that a lower deposit rate is partly the result of excess liquidity in the sector and deny claims of a lack of competition in Spain's relatively concentrated banking sector. This would leave them with around 40 billion euros of those funding lines at the ECB.
Persons: Luis de Guindos, De Guindos, DBRS, Jesús Aguado, Jan Harvey Organizations: European Central Bank, ECB, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Spanish, Santander, Spain, Madrid, TLTROs
MADRID, June 15 (Reuters) - Spain's Santander (SAN.MC) on Thursday announced it appointed Pedro Castro e Almeida as regional head for Europe, replacing Antonio Simoes, who was hired to head Britain's Legal and General Group (LGEN.L). As regional chief, Castro will be responsible for the bank's businesses in Europe, including its units in Spain, Britain, Poland and Portugal. The appointment will take effect on September 1, subject to customary approvals, with Simoes continuing in his current position until then, the lender said. Castro will lead the transformation in the region and report to the group's CEO, Hector Grisi, while maintaining his current position as CEO of Santander Portugal. Reporting by Jesús Aguado; editing by Inti LandauroOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Pedro Castro e Almeida, Antonio Simoes, Castro, Simoes, Hector Grisi, Jesús, Inti Organizations: Spain's Santander, General Group, Santander, Inti Landauro, Thomson Locations: MADRID, Europe, Spain, Britain, Poland, Portugal, Santander Portugal
Summary ECB boss says bank needs to be 'courageous' to control pricesLagarde hints at more tightening despite critical momentMADRID, May 19 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank needs to keep interest rates high to curb inflation in the medium term, its president Christine Lagarde said on Friday, signalling more monetary tightening. The ECB slowed the pace of rate hikes this month with a 25-basis-point rise, but Lagarde indicated the cycle was not over. "We still have to have sustainably high interest rates, so it's a time when we have to really buckle up and look at this target that we have and deliver on it," Lagarde told Spanish state television TVE. The ECB has a medium term inflation target of 2%. Lagarde, who did not elaborate on potential further hikes, said: "Our goal is simple and straightforward: price stability.
MADRID, May 5 (Reuters) - Spain's Santander (SAN.MC) has agreed to sell a portfolio of distressed loans with a gross value of 1.1 billion euros ($1.21 billion) to U.S. private equity fund Cerberus and real estate loan manager Axactor, Expansion reported on Friday. The loan portfolio, dubbed 'Spirit project', includes personal loans, some mortgages, and loans to medium and small companies, Expansion said, citing unidentified financial sources. The first loan portfolio, of around 660 million euros, was sold to Gescobro, a Spanish unit of Cerberus, and the second, of around 440 million euros, to Axactor, it said. Santander declined to comment, while Cerberus and Axactor did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Spanish banks were very active in the past in shedding real estate assets that went bad in the economic slump that followed the bursting of Spain's real estate bubble at the end of 2007.
MADRID, May 5 (Reuters) - Spain's Caixabank (CABK.MC) said on Friday its net profit rose 21% in the first quarter from the same period in 2022 thanks to a strong increase in lending income and a solid performance of its insurance business. The lender reported a net profit of 855 million euros ($943.83 million) in the January to March period despite a cost of 373 million euros from a new banking tax. Analysts polled by Reuters expected a net profit of 643 million euros. Spanish lenders, including Caixabank (CABK.MC), Sabadell, Santander (SAN.MC), BBVA (BBVA.MC), have legally challenged the tax. Despite economic uncertainty, banks across Europe are benefiting from higher interest rates and Caixabank's net interest income in the quarter rose 49% year-on-year to 2.16 billion euros, beating the 2.02 billion euros analysts expected.
The lender reported a 39% year-on-year rise in profit at 1.85 billion euros ($2.04 billion) for the January to March period, above the 1.66 billion euros forecast by analysts polled by Reuters and despite a 225 million euros banking levy. Net interest income (NII), or earnings on loans minus deposit costs, rose 43% year-on-year to 5.6 billion euros in the quarter, in line with expectations. In Mexico, net profit rose 65%, while income from lending increased by 48%. In Spain net profit fell 9.5% due to the levy though NII rose 38%. However, net interest income in Turkey fell 3.7% year-on-year in the quarter following new regulations which have weighed on banks' books.
MADRID, April 27 (Reuters) - Spain's Sabadell (SABE.MC) on Thursday said its first-quarter net profit fell 4% from the same period in 2022 due to the impact of a new banking tax in Spain which could not be offset by a solid performance in lending income. The country's fourth-largest bank in terms of market value reported a net profit of 205 million euros ($226.55 million) in the January to March period. Analysts polled by Reuters expected a net profit of 138 million euros. The bank said the cost of the banking levy was 157 million euros, which it fully booked in the quarter. Excluding the impact of the banking tax, first quarter net profit rose 69% year-on-year.
Non-performing loans stood at nearly record lows of 3.56% in January, far below the all time-high of 13.6% in December 2013. Deputy Governor Margarita Delgado also said that amid a tighter financing conditions following a period of abundant, cheap liquidity, banks should assess liquidity risks and have diverse, credible and plan-based funding sources to allow them to "adapt flexibly to the changing environment." In its report, the Bank of Spain said it expected Spanish lenders to maintain comfortable excess liquidity positions. As of February, Spanish banks' liquidity coverage ratio stood on average at 175% among the significant lenders, well above the global average of 140%, according to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Olano said that Spanish banks' exposure to Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) stood at between 300 million euros ($325.23 million)and 400 million euros.
MADRID, March 16 (Reuters) - Spanish banks' exposure to struggling Swiss lender Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) is immaterial and lower than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion), a source with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. "The total exposure from Spanish lenders to Credit Suisse is well below 1 billion euros," the source said, without elaborating further. Credit Suisse in Spain declined to comment. Two supervisory sources told Reuters on Wednesday that the European Central Bank had contacted banks on its watch to quiz them on their exposure to Credit Suisse. On Thursday, the head of Spanish banking association AEB Alejandra Kindelan said she saw "no risk of contagion to Spanish banks", adding that domestic banks were well funded and properly supervised.
TotalEnergies buys CEPSA’s upstream assets in Abu Dhabi
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[1/2] The logo of French oil and gas company TotalEnergies is seen on an oil tank at TotalEnergies fuel depot in Mardyck near Dunkirk, France, January 16, 2023. REUTERS/Benoit TessierPARIS, March 1 (Reuters) - French oil company TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy the upstream assets in the United Arab Emirates of Spanish energy company Cepsa (CPF.GQ). The deal covers the purchase of a 20% stake in the Satah Al Razboot (SARB), Umm Lulu, Bin Nasher and Al Bateel (SARB and Umm Lulu) offshore concession, which includes two major offshore fields, the statement said. It also covers the purchase of a 12.88% indirect interest in the Mubarraz concession held by Abu Dhabi Oil Company Ltd (ADOC), which comprises four producing offshore fields. ($1 = 0.9374 euros)Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Jesus Aguado, Editing by Louise HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
"Profitability guidance will be a positive surprise for the market ... however the company had already guided to an above 15% ROTE in 2023," Jefferies said, adding that new dividend policy had also been anticipated. As part of this plan, Santander's European region will see this metric rising to 15% from 9.28% by the end of 2022. Santander also said that it expected to improve its efficiency ratio to 42% from currently 45.8%. Its total cash dividend per share for 2022 will rise to 0.1178 euros, it said, also announcing an additional share buy-back programme of 921 million euros ($974.8 million) after obtaining regulatory authorization. ($1 = 0.9448 euros)Reporting by Jesús Aguado; additional reporting by Emma Pinedo; editing by Inti Landauro and Emelia Sithole-MatariseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Santander has relied in the past on Latin America to cope with tough conditions for lenders in Europe since the financial crisis but banks across Europe are beginning to benefit from higher borrowing costs despite economic uncertainty. The remuneration would be in the form of cash payouts and share buybacks. This would bring Europe, the lender's main contributor to the group's profits, in line with the ROTE target seen for North America. Santander expects its cost of risk, which measures the cost of managing potential losses for the bank, to hover around 100 and 110 basis points in 2025 from an expected 120 bps this year. ($1 = 0.9448 euros)Reporting by Jesús Aguado; additional reporting by Emma Pinedo; editing by Inti Landauro and Emelia Sithole-MatariseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Under the deal, Nexi will buy 80% of Paycomet, Sabadell's payments subsidiary, for 280 million euros, with the Spanish lender retaining a 20% stake for at least three years. The business that handles shopowners' payments is a source of stable income for banks, but the need for hefty investments has prompted an increasing number of banks to dispose of all or part of their payments operations. With the deal, Nexi will come to handle transactions worth around 48 billion euros for more than 380,000 Spanish shopowners, adding around 30 million euros of core profit based on 2023 data, it said. The sale is at an enterprise value for the unit of 11.5 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. Rothschild and Jefferies were financial advisers to Nexi which also worked with BCG, KPMG and Allen & Overy.
Shares in Santander, the euro zone's second-biggest bank by market value, have fallen 47% since Sept. 10, 2014, while the European Stoxx 600 banks index (.SX7P) is down around 18%. "The bank will have a tailwind ... because half of the money comes from Europe. PAY-OUT FOCUSSome analysts expect a higher shareholder payout to be main plank of Santander's investor update in London. But lower valuations than European rivals and a better outlook for retail banks could help drive a share price rebound. Santander trades at a price to book value of 0.65%, compared to an average 0.73% from European peers.
Companies Repsol SA FollowMADRID, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The Spanish government is planning to raise around 6 billion euros ($6.39 billion) from its windfall tax on energy companies and banks, Budget Minister Maria Jesus Montero said on Tuesday. Spain approved a temporary levy on large energy firms and lenders that originally intended to raise 7 billion euros by 2024 to fund measures to ease cost of living pressures, but following amendments in parliament the amount was lowered. "The expected revenue is 1.7 billion from the energy tax and 1.3 billion from the bank tax (in 2023), 3 billion euros per year in total," Montero said. The Senate gave the final approval to a windfall tax on banks, although it largely left out smaller local lenders and foreign banks' units in Spain. Montero said that energy companies so far had paid 817 million euros in taxes, while banks had paid 637 million euros.
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