Caixabank

CaixaBank, S.A.
Sociedad Anónima
Traded as BMAD: CABK
Industry Financial services
Founded 2011
Headquarters Barcelona, Spain
Key people
 Isidre Fainé Casas (Chairman), Gonzalo Cortazar (CEO)
Products Universal banking, insurance, investment holdings
Profit €503 million (12M'13)
Total assets $409.8 billion (2015)[1]
Number of employees
 31,948 (12M'13)[2]
Parent Criteria CaixaHolding
Website www.caixabank.com

CaixaBank, S.A. (Catalan pronunciation: [ˌkaʃəˈbaŋ]), formerly Criteria CaixaCorp, is a Spanish financial services company owned by the Catalan savings bank La Caixa with a 72.76% stake.[3] Headquartered in Barcelona, the company consists of the universal banking and insurance activities of the La Caixa group, along with the group's stakes in the oil and gas firm Repsol YPF, the telecommunications company Telefónica and its holdings in several other financial institutions. Isidre Fainé is the Chairman of the company, having replaced Ricard Fornesa Ribó in May 2009,[4] and since June 2014 its CEO is Gonzalo Gortázar. It is Spain's third-largest lender by market value and with 6,631 branches to serve its 13.2 million customers, CaixaBank has the most extensive branch network in the Spanish market.[5]

History

The firm was formed in 2007 as Criteria CaixaCorp, a publicly traded vehicle for La Caixa's shareholdings and investments in both industrial and financial services companies. At the time of its 2007 debut, the Criteria CaixaCorp initial public offering was the largest-ever in Spain.[6] The company was promoted to the IBEX 35 index in January 2008.[7]

A 2011 restructuring of the companies of the group saw Criteria renamed CaixaBank as La Caixa's banking and insurance activities were merged into it.[8] At the same time most of the industrial stakes held by Criteria (including Grupo Port Aventura, Grupo Agbar, Gas Natural and Abertis) were transferred out of the firm to the new entity Criteria CaixaHolding, 100% owned by La Caixa.[9] Caixabank retained stakes in Repsol YPF and Telefónica as well as all of its holdings in other financial services companies.

On 26 March 2012 CaixaBank announced its intention to merge with Banca Cívica, valuing Civica at 977 million euro. The merger is intended to be completed in the 3rd quarter of the year and will create the largest bank in Spain.[10][11]

On 27 November 2012, CaixaBank announced its plan to buy nationalized bank Banco de Valencia after Spain's bank restructuring fund called FROB injects €4.5 billion into Banco de Valencia. The FROB also assumed losses of up to 72.5% for a period of ten years in certain assets held by Banco de Valencia.[12]

On 26 September 2013, CaixaBank approved the sale of its real estate unit Servihabitat to a joint venture between the bank and private equity fund Texas Pacific Group (TPG) for an initial price of €310 million. Caixabank's parent, financial group La Caixa, said it estimated it would bring in 317 million euros in capital gains from the deal.[13]

In June 2014 CaixaBank's Board of Directors appointed Gonzalo Gortázar as their new CEO, having approved the resignation by mutual consent of Juan María Nin as Deputy Chairman and CEO.[14] In his first interview since becoming CEO, Gonzalo Gortázar stated "There are a number of priorities for CaixaBank. The first one is dealing with the last legs of the crisis. We want to normalize the balance sheet and we want to normalize funding costs."[15]

2008-2013 Spanish Financial Crisis

Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB), a banking bailout and reconstruction program initiated by the Spanish government in June 2009, facilitated the merger between CaixaBank and Banco de Valencia on 27 November 2012.[16]

With competitors such as Banco Santander SA with 4,752 Spanish branches, CaixaBank announced it is conducting a "gradual process" of adjusting its branch networks on 9 January 2013.[17]

CaixaBank SA sold 13.1 billion pesos of shares in Grupo Financiero Inbursa SAB to both bolster trading in the Mexican lender controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim and replenish money lost amid Spain's property crash.[18]

Holdings

Significant declared shareholdings as of March 2012 were:[19]

Company % of share capital
Banco BPI 46.2%
Boursorama 20.73%
Grupo Financiero Inbursa 9.0%
The Bank of East Asia 16.5%
Repsol YPF 12.1%
Erste Group 9.1%
Telefónica 5.4%
Bolsas y Mercados Españoles 5.01%

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/global2000/list/2/#header:assets_sortreverse:true
  2. ↑ "Annual Report 2011" (PDF). CaixaBank. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  3. ↑ CaixaBank Group, Integrated Corporate Report 2012
  4. ↑ "Fainé releva hoy a Fornesa en la cúpula de Criteria". El País (in Spanish). 7 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  5. ↑ Spain's Shrinking Bank Network Leaves CaixaBank Top-Heavy, www.Businessweek.com, 21 October 2013
  6. ↑ "A new conquistador". The Economist. 11 October 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  7. ↑ "Notice from the Technical Advisory Committee of the IBEX Indices concerning Aguas de Barcelona, S.A. and Altadis, S.A." (PDF). Sociedad de Bolsas. 29 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
  8. ↑ Mallet, Victor (12 May 2011). "Caixabank to float as part of wider revamp". Financial Times. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  9. ↑ Nicholson, Chris V. (13 May 2011). "La Caixa Moves to Take Banking Arm Public". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  10. ↑ "CaixaBank becomes Spain's biggest bank by assets". BBC. 2012-03-27.
  11. ↑ "CaixaBank today approves an agreement of intent to merge with Banca Cívica, to create Spain’s leading financial group". Caixabank. 2012-03-26.
  12. ↑ "Caixabank to buy nationalised Banco de Valencia for 1 euro - FROB". http://www.reuters.com. Reuters. 2012-11-27. Retrieved 21 October 2013. External link in |website= (help)
  13. ↑ "Spain's Caixabank approves real estate unit sale to TPG". http://www.reuters.com. Reuters. 2013-09-26. Retrieved 21 October 2013. External link in |website= (help)
  14. ↑ "Gonzalo Gortázar, new CEO of CaixaBank". CaixaBank. 2014-06-30. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "CaixaBank's simple steps to success". http://www.TheBanker.com. The Banker. 2014-08-01. Retrieved 11 August 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  16. ↑ "Caixabank to buy nationalised Banco de Valencia for 1 euro - FROB". http://www.reuters.com. Reuters. 2012-11-27. Retrieved 21 October 2013. External link in |website= (help)
  17. ↑ Penly, Charles (2013-01-10). "Spain's Shrinking Bank Network Leaves CaixaBank Top-Heavy". http://www.Businessweek.com. BusinessWeek. Retrieved 21 October 2013. External link in |website= (help)
  18. ↑ "CaixaBank's $990 Million Inbursa Share Sale Tests Mexico Market". http://www.businessweek.com. BusinessWeek. 2013-06-25. Retrieved 21 October 2013. External link in |website= (help)
  19. ↑ "Presentation of Quarterly Results, 1Q2012" (PDF). Caixabank. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.

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