MADRID | Everything you wanted to know about Spanish giant Banco Santander–and the largest banks of the country–but were afraid to ask. By Carlos Díaz Güell.

Spain’s largest banks have built up a bigger footprint in Latin America to hedge against recession-hit European markets. Their bet is now paying off. The economies of the region are still expanding.

MADRID | Finance daily newspaper Expansion reported Tuesday that investment bank Goldman Sachs expects Santander and BBVA stock price to go up by 50 percent, according to an analysts’ note. The confidence of Goldman Sachs experts goes far beyond the two big Spanish banks, too. All medium-sized banks in Spain had their ratings updated with higher value, apart from Bankinter, whose share [...]

By Luis Torralba, in Valencia | Telefónica, Banco Santander, Iberdrola, BBVA and Repsol, that is, the so-called Spanish ‘blue chips’ or front line corporations ​​are currently all placed among the top ten Euro Stoxx50 stocks by dividend yield. This is quite an interesting piece of information to bear in mind when allocating capital, because it is one [...]

LONDON | Less than 5 percent of all small businesses play the biggest role in boosting the UK economy, a new report by Santander Corporate Banking has concluded. The study, released Tuesday, also indicated that this same small fraction of SMEs accounts for two-thirds of all private-sector employment. Santander analysts found that a very limited number of [...]