Banco de Sabadell, S.A. is a Spanish multinational financial services company headquartered in Alicante and Barcelona, Spain. It is the 4th-largest Spanish banking group. It includes several banks, brands, subsidiaries and associated banks. It is a universal bank and specialises in serving small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the affluent with a bias towards international trade.
A savings bank is a financial institution that is not run on a profit-maximizing basis, and whose original or primary purpose is collecting deposits on savings accounts that are invested on a low-risk basis and receive interest. Savings banks have mostly existed as a separate category in Europe.
La Caixa, also known as the "La Caixa" Foundation, is a not-for-profit banking foundation based in Spain, with its headquarters in Palma de Mallorca since October 2017.
In Spain, a savings bank is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and granting loans. Spanish banks fall into two categories: Privately owned banks (bancos) and government owned banks. The original aim was to encourage thrift among the very poor, but they evolved to compete with and rival commercial banks.
The Kutxa is a savings bank mainly operating within a regional scope in the Gipuzkoa province of Spain. Its Spanish name is Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Gipuzkoa y San Sebastián but it was re-branded as Kutxa. On 1 January 2012 it merged with other Basque financial entities, Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa (BBK) and Caja Vital Kutxa, to form Kutxabank.
Telecable is a cable company that operates in Asturias offering triple play services as well as mobile phone services as an MVNO since 2007.
Caja de Ahorros de Navarra or Caja Navarra or CAN was a medium-sized savings bank based in the Navarre province of northern Spain with headquarters in Pamplona. The financial institution broke up in 2012 among allegations of irregularities and failure by the relevant control organ of the Government of Navarre to audit the savings bank for several years. On an yearly basis, UPN's regional Government was handed over a copy-paste, two-page long activity report by Caja Navarra, as revealed in 2014.
Unicaja is a Spanish savings bank based in Málaga and chartered as a caja de ahorros providing retail banking services. The banks full name is Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Ronda, Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera after the names of all the merged entities and the mount of piety structure.
Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa (BBK) was a bank in Spain. On June 30, 2014, the General Assembly of BBK approved the transformation of the entity into a banking foundation, in accordance with the Law on Savings Banks and Banking Foundations. In Vizcaya, the name "BBK" is maintained as a trademark of Kutxabank, an entity of which the foundation owns part of the shareholding (as of December 2017, 57%).
Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo was a Spanish savings bank in Alicante, Valencia.
Caja Madrid, formally the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid, headquartered in Madrid, was the oldest of the Spanish savings banks. It was founded on 3 December 1702, by Francisco Piquer Rodilla, an Aragonese priest. Caja Madrid was the regional-owned bank of the Community of Madrid.
The Deposit Guarantee Fund of Credit Institutions is a fund financed by retail, cooperative, and savings banks as well as the Spanish central bank covering deposits in Spanish banks.
Sareb is the bad bank of the Spanish government. Its purpose is to manage and disinvest high-risk assets that were transferred to it from the four nationalized Spanish financial institutions. The company was formed in 2012.
Liberbank was a Spanish financial services company constituted by a merger of Group Cajastur, Caja de Extremadura and Caja Cantabria. It was established from the combination of the assets and liabilities of the banking business.
La Casa Encendida is a social and cultural centre in central Madrid. It began operations in December 2002.
Ibercaja Banco, S.A., stylised as iberCaja, is a Spanish financial services company based in Zaragoza. It was created by the Caja de Ahorros and Monte de Piedad of Zaragoza, Aragón and Rioja (Ibercaja) in 2011, to develop its financial activity, being initially the shareholder of 100% of the bank. After the acquisition of Caja3 by Ibercaja Banco, in the process of banking restructuring in Spain, 87.8% was owned by Ibercaja and 12.2% by the three Caja3 shareholders.
Panama has a substantial financial services sector. The sector grew up providing trade finance for trade passing through the Panama Canal, and later evolved into money laundering for the drug trade under Manuel Noriega.
Caja Castilla-La Mancha also known as Caja de Ahorros de Castilla-La Mancha or CCM was a Spanish savings bank headquartered in Cuenca.
Fundación Caja Cantabria is a Spanish banking foundation based in Santander. It is the entity resulting from the transformation, in 2014, of Caja de Ahorros de Santander y Cantabria, a savings bank whose commercial name was "Caja Cantabria", which had transferred its financial activity to Liberbank in 2011. Its activity consists of the maintenance and dissemination of the heritage and the social and cultural work inherited from the savings bank.
Caja de Ahorro Provincial de Guadalajara was a Spanish savings bank headquartered in Guadalajara that operated in that province and Madrid under the trade name Caja de Guadalajara. In 2010 it had 73 branches.
