UK Bank’s Tech Chaos Blocks Customers from Their Funds: Day 5 by Don Quijones • Apr 24, 2018 • 30 Comments But Spanish parent, Banco Sabadell, proclaimed triumphantly to its Spanish audience that the botched IT transition was a resounding success.
EU Moves to Protect Financial System from Failing Banks by Don Quijones • Apr 19, 2018 • 29 Comments Too Little, Too Late?
Construction Giants in Spain Panic over Prospect of Losing one of their Biggest Rackets by Don Quijones • Apr 11, 2018 • 12 Comments Government gets ready to cave.
World’s Most Wanted Bank Whistleblower Was Just Arrested, for the Worst Possible Reason by Don Quijones • Apr 4, 2018 • 34 Comments For a prisoner exchange between Switzerland and Spain?
Playing With Fire in Catalonia by Don Quijones • Apr 3, 2018 • 17 Comments A relentless state, angry demonstrations, and profoundly worried businesses.
Banks & Builders Want New Property Bubble In Spain, Government Obliges by Don Quijones • Mar 29, 2018 • 16 Comments “This plan, far from solving or alleviating the problem, is likely to make it a whole lot worse.”
Competition Eats the Profits of Big Shaky Banks in Euroland: So Consolidate by Don Quijones • Mar 25, 2018 • 15 Comments The plan: Take out mid-sized banks to create a “bipolar” industry of large and small banks, and a lot less competition.
“Welcome to Hell”: Barcelona Taxi Drivers Prepare for Uber’s Return by Don Quijones • Mar 17, 2018 • 37 Comments Uber has struck a more conciliatory approach this time, but taxi drivers are not convinced.
Toxic Debt Still Plagues Spanish Banks (and Taxpayers Will End Up Paying for It) by Don Quijones • Mar 11, 2018 • 18 Comments Years after Crisis Was “Solved.”
Cash Refuses to Die, But the €500-Note Is a Goner by Don Quijones • Mar 8, 2018 • 46 Comments War-on-Cash Backlash.
