Abanca

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ABANCA Corporación Bancaria, S.A.

Formerly	NCG Banco, S.A.
Type	Sociedad anónima
Industry	Financial services
Predecessor	Caixa de Aforros de Galicia, Vigo, Ourense e Pontevedra
Founded	A Coruña, Spain (15 September 2011 (2011-09-15))
Headquarters	Betanzos , Spain
Number of locations	NGB: 680 branches Abroad: 10 offices
Area served	Nationwide
Key people	Javier Etcheverría de la Muela, Chairman Juan Carlos Escotet, Vice-chairman Francisco Botas, CEO
Services	Retail banking Commercial banking
AUM	€56 billion (2014)
Number of employees	5,946 (2012)
Divisions	NCG Corporación Industrial, S.L. NCG División Grupo Immobiliario, S.L.
Rating	Fitch: BB+ Moody's: B3 S&P: B+
Website	www.abanca.com

ABANCA Corporación Bancaria, S.A. is a Spanish bank based in Galicia. It was created in 2011 following the "bankisation" of Novacaixagalicia savings bank. It operates in the autonomous communities of Galicia, Asturias and the province of León, in other parts of Spain and in Portugal, as well as offices in the UK, France, Switzerland, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico and the USA.^[1]

History[]

ABANCA[]

Formerly NCG Banco, S.A., which traded as Novagalicia Banco, was created in September 2011 following the bankisation process of Novacaixagalicia.

As Novagalicia Banco's predecessor, the savings bank Novacaixagalicia, was subsequently bailed out by the Government of Spain the majority of the shares in the company were held by the bailout program Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (90.57%). The Novacaixagalicia Foundation holds 6.84% with the remaining 2.59% being held by private investors.

Evo Banco[]

On 12 March 2012 NCG Banco, S.A. began operating its assets outside of Galicia under the brand name EVO Banco and launched its main financial product the Cuenta Inteligente.^[2] In its first four weeks EVO Banco had attracted 8,290 clients and 70 million euros worth of investment.

On 9 September 2013 Novagalicia Banco announced that it would sell the EVO Banco division to the American private equity firm Apollo Global Management for 60 million euros.^[3]

Sale[]

Subsequently, Novagalicia Banco began opening branches in other cities in Spain under its own brand.

On 11 November 2013, the Spanish government bailout program Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB) began the privatization process of Novagalicia Banco. After analyzing six bids presented by various Spanish banks, investments funds and international banks on December 18 the FROB opted to sell its shareholding to Banco Etcheverría, S.A, a Venezuelan-owned Spanish bank, for €1.03 billion

The sale was finalised on 25 June 2014 when Banesco, Banco Etcheverría's parent company, made an initial payment of €403 million. Banesco would pay a further €200 million on 30 June 2017 and the final payment of €300 million a year later.

Rebranding[]

The following day, at an event held in the Galician capital, Santiago de Compostela, Novagalicia Banco revealed the new brand name for their bank: ABANCA (from a banca; Galician for "the bank"), a change which went into effect the very same day in all branches throughout the region.

Merger[]

In December 2014 the company announced the merger of NCG Banco, S.A. with parent company Banco Echeverria, S.A. The company changed its legal name to ABANCA Corporación Bancaria, S.A. and its headquarters would be in the town of Betanzos, in the former headquarters of Banco Echeverria.

Acquisition

On 27 March 2018 Deutsche Bank announced its private and commercial client business in Portugal would be acquired by Abanca for €6.5bn. The business resumed trading Start of business on 11 June 2019.

Operations[]

Headquarters[]

Abanca has two operating headquarters; the institutional and business address in Vigo, and the social and tax address in A Coruña.

Investment portfolio[]

See also[]

• Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria
• List of banks in Spain

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abanca.

Official

• www.abancacorporacionbancaria.com/
• www.abanca.com/gl/

Financial

• NCG Banco, S.A. — Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores