Rato, who had already spent two years in prison over a separate embezzlement case during his tenure as chairman of Spanish lender Bankia, has denied any wrongdoing throughout the nine-year probe.

Last month two of Spain’s high street banks completed a merger to become Spain’s largest banking entity, but what does that mean for those who bank with either Caixabank or Bankia? Here’s ...

Growth through acquisitions isn’t part of CaixaBank’s latest three-year plan, it should be for other banks in Europe, Caixa’s ...

The sentence comes after the disgraced former heavyweight of Spain's conservative Popular Party was jailed for four and a half years in 2018 for misusing funds while working at lender Bankia.

BANKIA is officially no more. The bank founded 12 years ago as a result of merging seven savings banks – including Caja Madrid and the Valencian Bancaixa – and absorbed by Catalan giant ...