Between the Toll Roads and the Austin banks Spain may end up owning Texas again!
Zombie Bank ping....Zombie FDIC ping
BBVA (pronounced baybayoohbayah in Spanish) bought my local bank in Florida with headquarters in Arizona a few months ago. BBVA is Spain’s biggest bank, located in the Basque Country, and was formed from the merger of a couple of other Spanish banks. You still don’t get a break on sending wire transfers to Europe, though...
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Great. So, which foreign bank will take over Corus next week? Someone’s gotta do it. The FDIC sure can’t.
are they muslim Spaniards?
Wonder what connection they have to Gov Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor.
Here come the Spainards, money and all. I guess we can drive their roads, borrow their money and use their peso.
http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n29/Media2-en.html
US Seeks Information On BBVA Puerto Rico Money Laundering Case
July 15, 2002
In 2002 the US Justice Department asked Spain’s Supreme Court Judge Baltazar Garzon to provide information on allegations of money laundering involving Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA’s Puerto Rican unit,
They said the US authorities called on Garzon to supply documentation, including the testimony made to the Spanish judge by former BBVA co-chairman Emilio Ybarra and chief executive Pedro Luis Uriarte.
The Justice Department in Puerto Rico is investigating whether BBVA Puerto Rico broke “US criminal laws related to the laundering of money from drug traffic.”
BBVA Puerto Rico is alleged to have helped Colombian drug smuggler Marco Aurelia Royo Anaya launder money, using accounts in tax-havens such as the Cayman Islands, through the unit itself and its private banking arm, the sources said.