IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-59999-4_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Spain

In: Banking in the New Europe

Author

Listed:
  • José M. Pastor
  • Javier Quesada

Abstract

Well before Spain joined the Common Market, a group of economic sectors was concerned over how to adjust to the new conditions successfully. The financial sector in general, and especially the banking sector, was the clearest exponent of a rapid and continuing adjustment to the new atmosphere imposed by the new competitive panorama. This reaction accelerated over recent years as the Spanish banking system (SBS) became involved in multiple processes of change, namely the introduction and adjustment to new technologies, liberalisation, internationalisation, globalisation and deregulation. These processes were sometimes pushed by the authorities, following EC Directives, as well as by the banks themselves. Different strategies, including, among others, mergers and acquisitions and the establishment of cooperation agreements, were followed in order to adapt institutions to the new conditions imposed by the SMP.

Suggested Citation

  • José M. Pastor & Javier Quesada, 2002. "Spain," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Edward P. M. Gardener & Philip Molyneux & Barry Moore (ed.), Banking in the New Europe, chapter 11, pages 253-287, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59999-4_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230599994_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59999-4_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.