Post by account_disabled on Jan 17, 2024 4:14:19 GMT
The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce , which has a presence on the board of the La Caixa Banking Foundation as founder of the historic Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions of Barcelona, has announced that it will oppose the merger of CaixaBank and Bankia and that it will " formally request that it is not carried out . In several messages on his Twitter account, the president of the Barcelona Chamber, Joan Canadell, has made this position known. Just on Friday, the president of the Council of Chambers of Commerce of the Valencian Community, José Vicente Morata , expressed himself along the same lines as the CEV, in favor of the merger. These days, various opinions have been given in both senses. The most notable were those of political groups such as Unidas Podemos, which wanted to create a public bank based on the State's participation in Bankia. Throughout the weekend, the issue has been refined and the battle to bet on the headquarters of the great and future entity has also opened.
On Saturday, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, described it as positive that the headquarters remained in Valencia, although he referred to a 'private' company decision. In any case, the Chamber of Barcelona has a Whatsapp Number List symbolic presence on the foundation's board of trustees, chaired by Isidre Fainé and whose vice-chairmanship falls to Juan José López Burniol, to whom are added 13 trustees. The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, led since last year by Joan Canadell, has been represented on the board of this foundation - which controls 40% of CaixaBank through Criteria - since the end of July through Antoni Fitó. Canadell has proposed that, if CaixaBank and Bankia end up merging, the headquarters of the new merged bank "return to Barcelona, where it should never have left" , a demand that the Generalitat also made yesterday.
The statutes of the Foundation give the five founding entities of the Caixa d'Estalvis the power to elect a single representative on the board, within the framework of a rotating shift, and now they have had the opportunity to designate a representative to the Cambra. However, the merger between both financial entities is in the hands of the respective Boards of Directors of CaixaBank and Bankia, which if the negotiations are fruitful could meet in the coming weeks, and the date of September 13 is already being considered as possible. Canadell maintains that although the La Caixa Banking Foundation may be the first shareholder of the new bank, and the FROB the second, "the State has multiple tools to achieve what suits it. It is a matter of time before La Caixa is completely Spanishized forever and loses its origins. «If the merger is confirmed, it will be one more step to concentrate power in Madrid and move away from Catalan origins forever.
On Saturday, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, described it as positive that the headquarters remained in Valencia, although he referred to a 'private' company decision. In any case, the Chamber of Barcelona has a Whatsapp Number List symbolic presence on the foundation's board of trustees, chaired by Isidre Fainé and whose vice-chairmanship falls to Juan José López Burniol, to whom are added 13 trustees. The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, led since last year by Joan Canadell, has been represented on the board of this foundation - which controls 40% of CaixaBank through Criteria - since the end of July through Antoni Fitó. Canadell has proposed that, if CaixaBank and Bankia end up merging, the headquarters of the new merged bank "return to Barcelona, where it should never have left" , a demand that the Generalitat also made yesterday.
The statutes of the Foundation give the five founding entities of the Caixa d'Estalvis the power to elect a single representative on the board, within the framework of a rotating shift, and now they have had the opportunity to designate a representative to the Cambra. However, the merger between both financial entities is in the hands of the respective Boards of Directors of CaixaBank and Bankia, which if the negotiations are fruitful could meet in the coming weeks, and the date of September 13 is already being considered as possible. Canadell maintains that although the La Caixa Banking Foundation may be the first shareholder of the new bank, and the FROB the second, "the State has multiple tools to achieve what suits it. It is a matter of time before La Caixa is completely Spanishized forever and loses its origins. «If the merger is confirmed, it will be one more step to concentrate power in Madrid and move away from Catalan origins forever.