To Madrid. Alberto Fernández met the number one of the country's largest private bank

MADRID.- She is without a doubt one of the most powerful women of Spain.
Ana Patricia Botín,
the president of
Santander Bank, he talked for half an hour with the presidential candidate of
Frente de Todos, Alberto Fernandez, who "has ratified" the entity's general "business and investment" guidelines.

As he could tell
THE NATION, the executive moved to the headquarters of the
Camilo José Cela University, where the candidate met
an academic commitment, to have a face-to-face meeting with him.

The office gave them a room and they talked alone for half an hour after noon.

Local sources confirmed that the meeting had "good reading" and coincidences in the "guidelines" on economic and international policy.

"The message that was collected was quite reasonable and rational," was one of the expressions with which the meeting was described. "There was a mutual interest in seeing each other," he said.

Botín and Fernández have known each other for a long time. Since the current candidate was head of the Superintendency of Insurance under the Government of
Carlos Menem and the entity owned the private insurer
origin

During the meeting, Botín ratified the lines of business and investment of the bank in our country, as the next opening of the local branch of
Openbank,
the digital bank that the group founded in 1995 and already operates in Spain, with more than one million customers.

The company's project is to specify the expansion in Argentina between the end of 2019 and the first two months of 2020. In July 2018, the company hired the CEO of Google Argentina to lead the launch of this unit in Argentina.

Santander (his previous brand "Santander Rio" was dropped to align with his overall plan)
9000 employees and has just opened a new headquarters, with an investment of $ 170 million.

In 2018, as indicated in its financial balance, the net profit in Argentina was $ 10,225 million, an increase of 60.3% in one year, a variation higher than the rate of inflation accumulated during the year. period (47.6%). %, according to Indec data).

Ana Botín

Descendant of a family of bankers, Botín is one of the most important figures of the business world in this country.

During their meeting with Fernández, the Spaniards were surprised by one of their recent incursions:
a trip to Greenland check the effects of climate change.

Even Donald Trump did not have the same fate as her with the ice country.

Agenda of Alberto Fernández

• The candidate of Frente de Todos has planned a
  dinner today with Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and the President of the Ibero-American Secretary General (Segib), Rebeca Grynspan.
• Morning The agenda is reserved for private meetings with businessmen.
• he
  Thursday it will be the day he will meet the acting president, Pedro Sánchez, then, in the afternoon, the former president and socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
• he
  Friday he will briefly visit Portugal to meet his prime minister, António Costa, head of the economic zone.

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