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We are now in the third year of the international financial crisis and just over a year on from its peak, when on September 15, 2008, the US financial authorities allowed the investment bank Lehman Brothers to fail.<\/p>\n

This failure brought the international financial system to the brink of collapse, as it created a situation of extreme tension and widespread distrust regarding the solvency of financial institutions, which caused all available funding in global money and credit markets to disappear, with the risk that the international banking system would collapse entirely.<\/p>\n

Read the article by Pedro Pablo Villasante, Secretary General of the AEB, published in ABC.<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spanish banking is taking advantage of this period of difficulty to strengthen its competitive position and its capital strength through a significant increase in the level and quality of its own funds, and by making substantial provisions charged to its profit and loss account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","etiquetas":[294,332,310,642,321],"categorias-blog":[780,781],"class_list":["post-36210","blog-aeb","type-blog-aeb","status-publish","hentry","etiquetas-banca-espanola","etiquetas-credito","etiquetas-crisis","etiquetas-cuentas-de-resultados","etiquetas-fondos-de-inversion","categorias-blog-articles","categorias-blog-newsarticles"],"yoast_head":"\nBlog AEB - Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Banca<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spanish banking is taking advantage of this period of difficulty to strengthen its competitive position and its capital strength.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aebanca.es\/en\/actualidad\/te-interesa\/aeb-informa\/strength-and-competitiveness-of-spanish-banking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blog AEB - 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