Caixabank, S.A. is a financial services

Financial services

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 company, controlled with an 81% stake by Spanish

Spain

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 savings bank

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 La Caixa

La Caixa

La Caixa , formally Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona , is currently Europe’s leading savings bank and Spain's third largest financial institution, with a network of over 5,500 branches, more than 8,100 ATMs, a workforce in excess of 27,000 and more than 10.7 million...

. The company consists of the universal bank

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ing and insurance

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 activities of the La Caixa group, along with the group's stakes in the oil and gas

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 firm Repsol YPF

Repsol YPF

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, the telecommunications company Telefónica

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 and its holdings in several other financial institutions. Isidre Fainé is the Chairman of the company, having replaced Ricard Fornesa Ribó in May 2009, and its CEO is Juan María Nin.
The firm was formed in 2007 as Criteria CaixaCorp, a publicly-traded vehicle for La Caixa's shareholdings and investments in both industrial and financial services companies.