The Bank for International Settlements is an international financial institution which is owned by member central banks. Its primary goal is to foster international monetary and financial cooperation while serving as a bank for central banks.
BBVA México is the largest Mexican financial institution (2021),having about 20% of the market. Founded in 1932 as Banco de Comercio (Bancomer),and rebranded from 2000 to 2019 as BBVA Bancomer,its main stockholder is the Spanish bank BBVA. Its headquarters are located at the Torre BBVA México on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City.
The W Holding Company was a financial holding corporation located in Mayagüez,Puerto Rico. On April 30,2010,Westernbank,its wholly owned bank subsidiary,failed and its deposits and assets were seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and subsequently sold to Banco Popular de Puerto Rico.
BBVA Argentina,formerly BBVA Banco Francés,is a financial institution in Argentina.
Sir Paul Tucker is a British economist,central banker,and author. He was formerly the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England,with responsibility for financial stability,and served on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee from June 2002 until October 2013 and its interim and then full Financial Policy Committee from June 2011. In November 2012 he was turned down for the position of governor in favour of Mark Carney. In June 2013,Tucker announced that he would leave the Bank of England,and later that he would be moving to Harvard. He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to central banking. His first book,Unelected Power,was published in May 2018 and his second book,Global Discord was published in November 2022.
BBVA Provincial is a financial institution in Venezuela.
Stefan Nils Magnus Ingves is a Finnish-born Swedish banker,economist and civil servant who served as the Governor of Sveriges Riksbank,the central bank of Sweden,from 2006 to 2022. He serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) since November 2021. In June 2022,Ingves announced that he will resign as Governor of Sveriges Riksbank on 31 December 2022. He was succeeded in the role by the former director of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority,Erik Thedéen.
Basel III is the third Basel Accord,a framework that sets international standards for bank capital adequacy,stress testing,and liquidity requirements. Augmenting and superseding parts of the Basel II standards,it was developed in response to the deficiencies in financial regulation revealed by the financial crisis of 2007–08. It is intended to strengthen bank capital requirements by increasing minimum capital requirements,holdings of high quality liquid assets,and decreasing bank leverage.
JoséÁngel Sánchez Asiaín,1st Marquess of Asiaín,was a Spanish industrialist,university professor and economist.
Arnout Henricus Elisabeth Maria "Nout" Wellink is a Dutch economist and former central banker.
Alfredo Sáenz Abad is a Spanish businessman who was the CEO and Vice-Chairman of the Spanish bank Santander Group,the largest bank in the Eurozone and one of the largest banks in the world in terms of market capitalisation. He obtained his degree in Law from the University of Valladolid,and in Economics from the Universidad de Deusto,Bilbao.
Francisco González Rodríguez is a Spanish banker. He was president of the Argentaria bank between 1996 and 1998 and of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria from 2000 to 2018.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria,S.A.,better known by its initialism BBVA,is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Bilbao,Spain. It is one of the largest financial institutions in the world,and is present mainly in Spain,South America,Turkey,Italy and Romania.
Carlos Torres Vila is a Spanish banker,who has been CEO of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) since May 2015,and executive chairman since December 2018.
The Spanish State Economists and Trade Experts is the body of officials which belongs to the Central Administration specialized in the development and implementation of economic and trade policies of the Spanish government.
The Governor of the Bank of Spain is the head of the Bank of Spain,the central bank of the Kingdom of Spain. The Bank of Spain is integrated in the European System of Central Banks and,as such,the Governor is an ex officio member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
Julio Carabias Salcedo was a Spanish banker who was the first Governor of the Bank of Spain during the Second Spanish Republic.
Francisco Luzón López was a Spanish banker and economist. He assisted in transforming Spanish and Latin American banking over the last thirty years,leading banks such as Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and Banco Santander. Luzón was diagnosed with ALS in October 2013 and created the Fundación Francisco Luzón to fund ALS research.
Fernando Restoy Lozano is a Spanish economist who has been the Chairman of the Financial Stability Institute of the Bank for International Settlements since early 2017. In his previous position he was Vice Governor of the Bank of Spain from 2012 to 2017,and in parallel Chairman of Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria from 2012 to 2015.
