The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined TSB, the British subsidiary of Banco Sabadell, £10.91 million (around €13.04 million) for “unfair” treatment of customers struggling to meet their loans, primarily mortgages. According to the FCA, TSB Bank “failed to ensure that customers in arrears were treated fairly.” “It also lacked the proper controls and systems to ensure good outcomes,” it adds. The issues occurred between June 2014 and March 2020....

Jefferies | BBVA’s Adjusted Offer to Sabadell: Cash Component Was a Given. The adjusted offer made by BBVA to SAB, including the newly added cash component, comes as no surprise, as it is well in line with the adjustment terms described in the initial offer. We note a delay in the timeline of the deal would mechanically increase the cash proportion of the offer, which would have to reflect all...

On Tuesday, October 1, BBVA announced a change in the share exchange it was offering for Sabadell in the takeover bid it has proposed to acquire the Catalan entity: it changed from offering one new BBVA share for 4.83 Sabadell shares to offering one share of the bank for 5.0196 shares of the Catalan bank and a cash payment of 0.29 euros per share. According to BBVA, this change aligns...

UBS, which is acting as an advisor to BBVA in the takeover bid for Banco Sabadell, has declared to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that it holds a 3.15% stake in the capital, mostly through various financial instruments. However, according to the newspaper La Información, this seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. UBS is reportedly in a position to add more than 7% of Sabadell’s shares...

Link Securities | SAB increased its net interest income by 9.8% (+8.8% year-on-year at constant rates; +1.1%; FactSet consensus) between January and June, compared to 1H2023, to €2,493 million, mainly due to higher credit yields and revenues from the fixed-income portfolio supported by higher interest rates, offsetting higher cost of funds and capital markets and lower average volumes. – SAB also reduced its net fees and commissions by 3.3% year-on-year...

BBVA is holding an Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting today at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, at which it is expected to approve the takeover bid (hostile takeover bid) for Banco Sabadell, and the capital increase -of 20%- necessary to make the bid, at a ratio of one new BBVA share for every 4.83 Banco Sabadell shares. At the time the offer was made public, this offer represented a premium of...