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Madrid and London, 1 July 2025. Santander announces that it has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of TSB Banking Group plc (TSB) from Banco de Sabadell, S.A. (Sabadell), with a valuation of £2.65 ...
The digitalization of financial services has helped society progress in many areas, especially in financial inclusion, by increasing access to and use of payments, savings and other products and ...
Benefits Having these assistants at home can be a great help to: stay in the know: We can get all kinds of information found on the Internet, as well as asking about the weather, latest news, traffic ...
“Política Exterior” magazine carries out a comparative analysis of the economic growth of the European Union (EU), the United States (US) and China. In its opinion, Europe's decisions in recent years ...
It was Bill Gates who coined the term “green premium” to describe the additional cost for a product or service that doesn't emit CO2. The green premium makes it easier to see which industries and ...
“Nominal” and “real” are key economic terms to describe value. You’ll encounter them when you apply for a loan, use a credit card, are paid your salary or read up on GDP growth. Here we tell you what ...
Differences between cash and bank money In addition to cash, which in reality represents a small part of the total amount of money circulating in an economy, there is another type of money known as ...
What causes economic recession? All recessions have different causes and effects. Economies experiencing growth are likelier to fall into recession as part of the economic cycles. However, other ...
Blockchain technology enables us to create automated smart contracts. Here we explain how they work and why they’re seen as ground-breaking. Smart contracts are computer programs that run ...
The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University, which studies the political, economic, and societal implications of the current technological revolution, has published a report on how ...
Bruegel's article assessing impacts of the war in Ukraine on EU economic policy. According to its estimates, the EU will face additional challenges that will have a large budgetary impact, costing an ...