Spain’s Bankinter Is Winning Over Ireland

Spain’s Bankinter Is Winning Over Ireland

From a €400m card book to €5.2bn and a full licence — Bankinter built Ireland’s newest bank while nobody watched The Hispano-Luso Report The loudest banking stories of this masthead’s season have been continental in scale — Connecticut bought, a European...
Spain’s Iberdrola Wires America

Spain’s Iberdrola Wires America

A new 179km transmission award — and the pattern behind it: Spanish firms keep winning the grid the AI age runs on The Hispano-Luso Report Taken alone, this week’s news is modest, and this Report says so plainly: Iberdrola has won the construction of a new...
Santander Takes On BlackRock

Santander Takes On BlackRock

Spain’s champion launches its own ETFs from Dublin — in the arena America’s giants own The Hispano-Luso Report There are markets where challengers arrive weekly, and there is the European ETF market — the arena where BlackRock and Vanguard have converted...
$15bn: JPMorgan Goes Big on Argentine Gas

$15bn: JPMorgan Goes Big on Argentine Gas

A $24bn LNG project, bigger than the IMF’s loan — with Wall Street and Santander leading the money, and a decision due in November The Hispano-Luso Report The biggest name in American banking has put itself at the head of the biggest bet in Argentine history....
Brazil Tops the Investment Podium

Brazil Tops the Investment Podium

Brazil distances Mexico in 2026 foreign investment, with Chile third — the year’s arrivals table, read against the season’s promises The Hispano-Luso Report The arrivals table is in, and it reads like a verdict. Brazil leads Latin America in foreign direct...