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El Sabadell exige a BBVA lanzar una oferta “en serio y en efectivo” para negociar la fusión“Somos compradores”, transmiten desde el seno del Sabadell, reticente sobre todo por el negocio en Turquía.El Sabadell vuelve a dar calabazas al BBVA en su nuevo intento de compra. Al menos, en un primer momento. La entidad de origen catalán se resiste a caer en las redes del banco de La Vela y le exige lanzar una oferta “en serio y en efectivo”, como trasladan a Vozpópuli fuentes solventes cercanas a la operación. La intención del BBVA pasa por un canje de acciones, con una prima de más del 20%, pero la cúpula del Sabadell se opone a aceptar estos términos.En todo caso, la intención de fusión no es amistosa y no está pactada entre las cúpulas de ambos bancos. Como publicó este medio, BBVA planeaba una oferta plenamente en acciones, ofreciendo una ecuación de canje con una prima de entre el 20% y el 25%. Es decir, estaría dispuesto a ofrecer al Sabadell una horquilla de entre 0,23-0,25 acciones por cada una de la entidad de origen catalán.“No tienen intención de vender el banco. Les va muy bien. Se consideran compradores y no vendedores”, afirman fuentes financieras próximas al Sabadell. De hecho, la entidad había aparecido en las quinielas de fusiones como comprador de Unicaja, que de momento ha dado un tiempo prudente al nuevo CEO, Isidro Rubiales, para tratar de dar la vuelta al banco.Fuentes cercanas al Sabadell transmitían en privado hace unos días que habría que esperar para otra ronda de concentración bancaria por las altas valoraciones en Bolsa. "Exigen pagar primas muy elevadas", aseguraban las fuentes, que situaban al banco como "comprador" y apuntaban más hacia un momento en el que el BCE empezara a definir de forma clara el nuevo escenario de tipos.El lastre del negocio de TurquíaLas reticencias del Sabadell se deben sobre todo al negocio en Turquía, el talón de Aquiles de BBVA desde hace tiempo. La cúpula directiva del Sabadell tampoco tiene interés en crecer más en México, en donde tiene una pequeña presencia y donde ya se planteó salir antes de la fusión frustrada en 2020.Citar"En La Vela se lamentan de perder la oportunidad en 2020, a precios más bajos. "Torres va a caer en el mismo error", insisten en el seno del SabadellCon las condiciones actuales, una oferta en acciones, en el seno del Sabadell se considera que la operación volvería a descarrilar. “No se entiende cómo Carlos Torres va a caer en el mismo error”, trasmiten fuentes internas del banco de origen catalán.A finales de 2020, BBVA puso sobre la mesa unos 2.500 millones para hacerse con el Sabadell. Pero las diferencias de precio y el reparto de la cúpula tiraron por tierra las negociaciones apenas dos semanas después de confirmar los contactos ante la CNMV. Desde ese momento, dentro La Vela muchos directivos lamentaba la “oportunidad perdida”, como indican fuentes próximas a la entidad presidida por Carlos Torres.Citar"BBVA y Sabadell crearían un gigante bancario con un billón de activos en el mundo y disputarían el liderazgo en España a CaixaBankEl BBVA confirmó ayer que ha trasladado al presidente del consejo de administración de Banco de Sabadell el interés en iniciar negociaciones para explorar una posible fusión. Minutos después, el banco presidido por Josep Oliu anunciaba que había recibido "a las 13.43 horas" una "propuesta indicativa" para su integración, lo que daba muestras de que no se trataba de una fusión amistosa.Buenas valoraciones en BolsaEl planteamiento de una fusión con un canje de acciones tiene todo el sentido económico, como indican distintas fuentes financieras. Tanto BBVA como Sabadell se han anotado fuertes subidas en Bolsa al calor del ciclo histórico de aumentos de los tipos. El banco de La Vela ha superado máximos y ha protagonizado un rally bursátil superior al 60% en el último año. En los últimos cuatro años, las acciones del Sabadell se han multiplicado por cinco.BBVA se lanzó a por el Sabadell en 2020 tras vender la filial de Estados Unidos por 9.600 millones, que le generó un exceso de capital de unos 8.000 millones. Pero tras el fracaso de las conversaciones de hace casi cuatro años, se estima que el talón disponible para adquisiciones asciende a unos 2.500 millones, que sería insuficiente para lanzar una OPA en efectivo.BBVA tiene en la actualidad un valor en bolsa cercano a los 60.000 millones, mientras que la capitalización de Sabadell ronda los 10.000 millones. La integración de ambas entidades crearía un gigante bancario de cerca de un billón de activos en todo el mundo y disputaría el liderazgo en España a CaixaBank y al Santander.
"En La Vela se lamentan de perder la oportunidad en 2020, a precios más bajos. "Torres va a caer en el mismo error", insisten en el seno del Sabadell
"BBVA y Sabadell crearían un gigante bancario con un billón de activos en el mundo y disputarían el liderazgo en España a CaixaBank
BBVA’s Deal Appetite Signals a Bigger Shakeup at European BanksSabadell said Tuesday it has received bid proposal from BBVASpain is a hotbed for domestic banking consolidation in EuropeThe animal spirits look like they’re returning to European banking.The announcement by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA on Tuesday that it wants to begin talks to take over Banco Sabadell SA comes as further evidence that a long hoped-for consolidation in the region’s banking market is accelerating.While a tie up would not be the transformational, cross-border merger that many bankers and regulators have wanted, it stands to create a lender with more than €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) in assets and a market value close to Banco Santander SA’s current €72 billion valuation. It would give BBVA a profitable UK business as well as enable them to grow their Mexican business.An unusual confluence of factors has arrived. After almost two years of interest rate hikes, many lenders have reaped record profits that they’re under pressure to put to good use — and buybacks aren’t always the answer. As the focus now turns to when rates will go down again, executives are looking for opportunities to diversify. “As we slowly approach the first potential European Central Bank and Bank of England rate cuts, consolidation across the industry will gain front seat,” said Filippo Maria Alloatti, an analyst at Federated Hermes.European lenders have seen a 25% increase in 2024 consensus net profit since the start of 2022, spurred by rising interest rates, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. Record profits, including among the Spanish and Italian retail-banking groups that have benefited from the economic growth in Southern Europe, are beginning to shake up established patterns.This year, Spain, Portugal and Greece — bolstered by booming exports, tourism and lower energy prices — are expected to be among the top performing economies in the euro region, according to the European Commission.BBVA Chairman Carlos Torres now joins UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel and others openly on the hunt for deals. Orcel’s bank bought the Greek government’s 9% stake in Alpha Bank in October and announced a tie-up in Romania. The Italian has made no secret of the fact that he has billions of euros in spare capital looking to be put to use.French lenders are also on the move, where the eye for transactions goes beyond one-for-one mergers in banking. Earlier this month BNP Paribas SA agreed to buy Fosun International Ltd’s stage in Belgian insurer Ageas for about €730 million. Societe Generale SA disposed of two units within days this month, helping to arrest a slump in its stock price.In the wake of the financial crisis a decade and a half ago, Spain experienced a rapid concentration of banks. Lenders in the country cut their number of branches by almost two thirds and the number of staff by over 40% since the end of 2008, according to credit rating firm S&P. CaixaBank acquired Bankia in 2020 and Unicaja bought Liberbank the same year, while Santander took over smaller lender Banco Popular in 2017.Europe’s bank leaders for years have emphasized the need for transformational deals to stand out in a fragmented market that’s glutted with thousands of smaller, regional lenders. The lack of common deposit protection across the European Union and cumbersome regulations have stymied such efforts across borders.The so-called “banking union” project has been stalled for years on the lack of political will — yet even there are some signs of change. Earlier this month European lawmakers approved the first step in a plan to pool insurance for bank depositors.
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FED NOTESWhy hundreds of U.S. banks may be at risk of failureHundreds of small and regional banks across the U.S. are feeling stressed.“You could see some banks either fail or at least, you know, dip below their minimum capital requirements,” Christopher Wolfe, managing director and head of North American banks at Fitch Ratings, told CNBC.Consulting firm Klaros Group analyzed about 4,000 U.S. banks and found 282 banks face the dual threat of commercial real estate loans and potential losses tied to higher interest rates.The majority of those banks are smaller lenders with less than $10 billion in assets.“Most of these banks aren’t insolvent or even close to insolvent. They’re just stressed,” Brian Graham, co-founder and partner at Klaros Group, told CNBC. “That means there’ll be fewer bank failures. But it doesn’t mean that communities and customers don’t get hurt by that stress.”Graham noted that communities would likely be affected in ways that are more subtle than closures or failures, but by the banks choosing not to invest in such things as new branches, technological innovations or new staff.For individuals, the consequences of small bank failures are more indirect.“Directly, it’s no consequence if they’re below the insured deposit limits, which are quite high now [at] $250,000,” Sheila Bair, former chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., told CNBC.If a failing bank is insured by the FDIC, all depositors will be paid “up to at least $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.”
El pasado mes de febrero, el apartamento sufría una inundación de aguas fecales. “Se nos inundó toda la casa, una cosa rarísima porque es un cuarto. Estuvimos un mes entero sin agua, nos fuimos a un bungalow en el camping. Las fecales salían por la bañera, por el lavabo, el fregadero, se vertían a la calle a través de los tubos del aire acondicionado. En ese momento, mi casera me dice que no pague esos meses en compensación por las molestias y quedamos en que a cambio yo ponía de mi parte un mueble que había instalado en el baño”, explica.
Federal Reserve signals that interest rates will remain higher for longerUS central bank says there has been a ‘lack of further progress’ towards 2 per cent inflation goalThe Federal Reserve has signalled that US borrowing costs are likely to remain higher for longer, as a it wrestles with persistent inflation across the world’s biggest economy.The Federal Open Market Committee said after its meeting on Wednesday that there had been “a lack of further progress” towards its 2 per cent inflation goal in recent months — an addition to its statement that in effect delays rate cuts until the second half of this year at the earliest.“It is likely to take longer for us to gain confidence that we are on a sustainable path down to 2 per cent inflation,” Fed chair Jay Powell said during a news conference. “I don’t know how long it will take,” he added.But the Fed also indicated that it was not yet considering new rate rises to counter the recent uptick in inflation, saying that the risks to meeting its joint goals of full employment and subdued price pressures had “moved towards better balance over the past year”.“I think it’s unlikely that the next policy rate move will be a hike,” Powell said.The comments from Powell came as the US central bank held interest rates at 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent, a 23-year high that has been in place since the summer of 2023. The higher-for-longer rate signal from the Fed follows recent data showing that inflation had crept higher again, largely driven by costlier fuel, while the US economy grew more slowly in the first quarter of the year than expected.The comments from the central bank also mean that borrowing costs could remain higher for many US voters in the run-up to this year’s presidential election in November. President Joe Biden said recently that he “expected those rates to come down” this year.“The Fed’s room for manoeuvre has shrunk drastically, with inflation ticking up, growth slowing, and the political calendar becoming an increasingly tight constraint,” said Eswar Prasad, an economics professor at Cornell University.“The spectre of stagflation, which the Fed seemed to have decisively put behind it in 2023, is now back in the picture,” he added.The Fed also announced that from June it would reduce the cap on the amount of US Treasury bonds it allows to mature each month, without buying them back, from $60bn to $25bn. It would still allow up to $35bn in mortgage-backed securities to roll off the balance sheet. Any principal payments in excess of the $35bn cap would also be reinvested in Treasuries.In a market where some Treasury auctions are currently at record sizes, the slowdown in quantitative tightening could help bolster prices, and lower yields.US rate-setters had hoped to cut interest rates three times this year, but higher-than-expected inflation in recent months has raised the prospect that the Fed will keep borrowing costs at current levels for the duration of 2024.Ahead of the meeting, traders in the futures market were betting on between on and two cuts this year, with the first reduction not fully priced in until December.As Powell spoke on Wednesday, US stocks rose, reversing earlier losses, while Treasury yields dropped. The two-year yield, which moves with interest rate expectations, slid 0.09 percentage points to 4.94 per cent. Market expectations of rate cuts later this year, as observed in the futures market, were little moved in the middle of the press conference.The Fed statement on Wednesday came after recent price data showed its progress in lowering inflation in 2023 has stalled this year.The headline personal consumption expenditures measure, on which the Fed’s 2 per cent goal is based, edged up in March — to 2.7 per cent, from 2.5 per cent in the year to February. Rate-setters’ preferred gauge of underlying price pressures, core PCE, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, was unchanged at 2.8 per cent.While the progress on inflation has stalled, economic growth has also fallen back, with gross domestic product dropping in the most recent quarter to an annualised rate of 1.6 per cent, down from 3.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2023.Analysts have also warned that turmoil in the Middle East could push oil prices higher, adding to inflation for other goods.The jump in fuel costs led some analysts to warn about the prospect of “stagflation” if energy prices continued to rise while economic growth cooled.
Google Urges US To Update Immigration Rules To Attract More AI TalentPosted by msmash on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:01PM from the tussle-continues dept.The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor. From a report:CitarGoogle says policies like Schedule A, a list of occupations the government "pre-certified" as not having enough American workers, have to be more flexible and move faster to meet demand in technologies like AI and cybersecurity. The company says the government must update Schedule A to include AI and cybersecurity and do so more regularly."There's wide recognition that there is a global shortage of talent in AI, but the fact remains that the US is one of the harder places to bring talent from abroad, and we risk losing out on some of the most highly sought-after people in the world," Karan Bhatia, head of government affairs and public policy at Google, tells The Verge. He noted that the occupations in Schedule A have not been updated in 20 years.Companies can apply for permanent residencies, colloquially known as green cards, for employees. The Department of Labor requires companies to get a permanent labor certification (PERM) proving there is a shortage of workers in that role. That process may take time, so the government "pre-certified" some jobs through Schedule A. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services lists Schedule A occupations as physical therapists, professional nurses, or "immigrants of exceptional ability in the sciences or arts." While the wait time for a green card isn't reduced, Google says Schedule A cuts down the processing time by about a year.
Google says policies like Schedule A, a list of occupations the government "pre-certified" as not having enough American workers, have to be more flexible and move faster to meet demand in technologies like AI and cybersecurity. The company says the government must update Schedule A to include AI and cybersecurity and do so more regularly."There's wide recognition that there is a global shortage of talent in AI, but the fact remains that the US is one of the harder places to bring talent from abroad, and we risk losing out on some of the most highly sought-after people in the world," Karan Bhatia, head of government affairs and public policy at Google, tells The Verge. He noted that the occupations in Schedule A have not been updated in 20 years.Companies can apply for permanent residencies, colloquially known as green cards, for employees. The Department of Labor requires companies to get a permanent labor certification (PERM) proving there is a shortage of workers in that role. That process may take time, so the government "pre-certified" some jobs through Schedule A. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services lists Schedule A occupations as physical therapists, professional nurses, or "immigrants of exceptional ability in the sciences or arts." While the wait time for a green card isn't reduced, Google says Schedule A cuts down the processing time by about a year.
El organismo encabezado por Jerome Powell ha optado mantener los tipos de interés al nivel actual, entre el 5,25% y el 5,50%. Esa es la decisión unánime que han tomado los miembros de la Reserva Federal tras la reunión que han mantenido este miércoles. Pero en el comunicado, el Comité Federal de Mercado Abierto (FOMC, por sus siglas en inglés) ha destacado que "en los últimos meses, ha habido una falta de mayores avances hacia el objetivo de inflación del 2%", confirmando los temores de una resistencia de los precios. Todo ello, mientras los mercados siguen borrando bajadas de tipos en los próximos meses.