Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri

Spain will likely need no more money from Brussels to fix its financial industry after receiving 41.4 billion euros ($54 billion) to shore up banks hammered by a 2008 property crash, the European Commission said Tuesday.

The head of Spain's bailed-out lender Bankia, which was nationalised last year as it sank under a pile of bad loans, said Tuesday he hopes the bank will start to be privatised by 2015.

Bailed-out Spanish banking giant Bankia suffered a loss of 19 billion euros ($25 billion) in 2012, it said in an earnings statement Thursday.

Bailed-out Spanish banking giant Bankia suffered a loss of 19 billion euros ($25 billion) in 2012, it said in an earnings statement Thursday.

Furious pensioners who lost savings through investments in ruined lender Bankia booed its managers Friday, branding them thieves, at the first shareholders' meeting since the bank's huge rescue.

Spain's "indignant" activists filed a criminal complaint Thursday against the former management of Bankia, whose partial nationalisation helped push Madrid to seek a massive EU bailout.

Shares in Spain's troubled Bankia, which has asked for a 19-billion-euro ($24 billion) bailout from the government, will resume trading on Monday, the stock exchange authority said.

Spain's fourth-biggest bank Bankia said Saturday it was certain of securing the 19 billion euros ($24 billion) in state aid it is seeking in the largest bank bailout in the country's history.

The new president of Spain's fourth-biggest bank, Bankia, said Saturday he was confident of receiving from the government 19 billion euros ($24 billion) in the largest bank bailout in the country's history.

Spain's fourth-biggest bank, Bankia, has said it will ask the government for 19 billion euros ($24 billion) in the largest bank bailout in the country's history.

Spain's fourth-biggest bank, Bankia, said Friday it will ask the government for 19 billion euros ($24 billion) in the largest bank bailout in the country's history.

Shares in Bankia, taken over by the Spanish state because of a mass of bad loans, plunged Thursday after a report that clients had withdrawn over one billion euros in the past week.

Spain stamped out immediate fears of a banking catastrophe Thursday by nationalising its fourth-largest listed bank, Bankia, and salvaging its balance sheet, strewn with red ink.

Spain stamped out immediate fears of a banking catastrophe Thursday by nationalising its fourth-largest listed bank, Bankia, and salvaging its balance sheet, strewn with red ink.

The Spanish state will take control of the fourth-biggest listed bank, Bankia, the government said Wednesday, as it races to shore up the bank's bad loan-ridden balance sheet.

Spain will swoop in with public money this week to clean up huge bad loans at the nation's fourth-biggest listed bank, Bankia, the government said Monday.

Spanish unions and some lawmakers condemned as "obscene" and "scandalous" on Wednesday a multi-million-euro pension paid out to a top executive at Spain's second-biggest bank, BBVA.