Emilio Bot News Today

This week Ana Botín praised LA's "strength" to face the crisis because she believes "it is better prepared" than people think.

NNot only in this double crisis that the world is experiencing in the last three years, the Latin American region has performed better than the United States and the European Union (EU), but also in the long subprime crisis - unleashed in 2008 - Latin American countries became a refuge from the crisis for many Spanish and other European companies.  

Plus, Robert Blumenthal Gallery and Derek Fordjour settle a lawsuit over undelivered artworks and Spain investigates collector Paloma Botín.

António Horta-Osório: ‘Lloyds was about to die’ Next week, after a successful 15-year spell in the UK, António Horta-Osório will board a plane to Zurich hoping to have a similar impact in Switzerland. When the Portuguese banker made Britain his home in 2006, he was a relative unknown, dispatched by Spain’s Banco Santander to run its new UK arm, the former Abbey National. But in the years that followed he has become a pillar of the British establishment, as few foreign bankers have: he...