Spain's BBVA Hopes M&A Can Help It Become the Eurozone's Biggest Bank

Spain's BBVA Hopes M&A Can Help It Become the Eurozone's Biggest Bank·The Wall Street Journal
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Spanish lender BBVA has a pretty big goal if it succeeds in buying smaller peer Banco de Sabadell: become the largest bank in the euro area by market value. BBVA, or Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, said Tuesday that it sent an offer to Sabadell. In a letter to Sabadell’s board, BBVA’s Carlos Torres Vila said a combined bank would be among the largest and strongest financial institutions in Europe, “with the ambition of becoming the largest bank by market capitalization of the eurozone.”

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