The mortgage war is still very much alive in November. Perhaps to try to improve the bad numbers of hiring that were registered during the previous state of alarm, the Spanish banks keep the conditions of their loans for housing very attractive, especially in the fixed rate offers. For those who want to know what […]
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With these credit cards you can pay your purchases without interest
According to the Bank of Spain, there are 37 million credit cards in circulation in our country and most are not exactly cheap. Every time a Spaniard uses them to pay in installments for a purchase pays an interest of 18% on average. A price that almost triples that of financing with a consumer […]
Kutxabank closes the third quarter with 160 million benefits, 40.1% less, but allocates 277 million to endowments
The group Kutxabank has obtained at the end of the third quarter of 2020 a net profit of 160 million euros. This is 40.1% less than in the same period of 2019, but in the first nine months of the year, the group has allocated to endowments 277.4 million euros, 146 million more than in […]
Reverse in an eviction practiced on the brink of curfew in Barcelona
Thursday’s rage has turned into euphoria this Friday in Ciutat Meridiana, one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by evictions and poverty in Barcelona. The jubilation erupted when Ruth retrieved the hand keys of an operator sent by BBVA, the day after being evicted with her three young children, two hours after the curfew by the […]
How much you can save on your mortgage if you change banks
 For approximately half a year, banks operating in Spain have been waging a new trade war to “steal” mortgages, that is, to capture mortgages from other entities. To this end, many finance companies have launched attractive surrogacy offers (the technical name of this operation) with which they propose to outside clients to move to […]
The judge asks the Police to review the ‘forensic’ prepared by BBVA on the orders to Villarejo
The judge in the Villarejo case has asked the Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police to review the forensic report commissioned by BBVA after the contracts with the former commissioner were known and which led to the imputation of the bank and its former president Francisco González. In a car that Efe has accessed, national hearing judge […]
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Opening a checking account without fees, making a free transfer or requesting a credit card without annual fees has become an odyssey for those clients who do not have a payroll and, in some banks, also for those who do. . The banks have made the commissions on their checking accounts more expensive during the […]
The end of physical cards? BBVA launches ‘Aqua’ to lead the digital revolution in payments due to the pandemic
Under the name of ‘Aqua’, the entity that presides Carlos Torres launches a new card format without a number, expiration date or CVV focused on mobile payments. It will be digital, although with the possibility of making it physical at no cost using recycled plastics, and it will entail verification of payments through the […]
MANAGEMENT-Support measures saved banks from the worst-Allianz GI
Faced with structural difficulties even before the onslaught of the coronavirus, the banking sector has escaped the worst thanks to the spectacular measures deployed by central banks and governments to support credit, it is said at Allianz Global Investors. Confronted both with the tightening of their margins in a universe of low interest rates, with […]
The climate remains favorable for emerging debt-JP Morgan AM
The market environment remains favorable for emerging debt, in particular due to the reopening of economies and support measures implemented by central banks and governments, JP Morgan Asset is said to have Management. This asset class has withstood the crisis better than some expected with a relatively low default rate, expected to be around 3% […]