{"id":36267,"date":"2016-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aebanca.es\/actualidad\/te-interesa\/aeb-informa\/times-are-far-too-interesting-for-the-banking-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:50:42","slug":"times-are-far-too-interesting-for-the-banking-sector","status":"publish","type":"blog-aeb","link":"https:\/\/aebanca.es\/en\/actualidad\/te-interesa\/aeb-informa\/times-are-far-too-interesting-for-the-banking-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Times are far too interesting for the banking sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all familiar with the phrase &#8220;may you live in interesting times,&#8221; so popular in English that it is also known as the <em>Chinese curse<\/em>. And also that other saying about how the word crisis in Chinese is written using the characters for problem and opportunity. Both ideas are apocryphal, Western inventions that have nothing to do with China. But <em>se non \u00e8 vero, \u00e8 ben trovato<\/em>: the truth is that living in such interesting times is truly starting to become exhausting. To the terrible consequences of this crisis, which has impacted business profitability as well as its reputation\u2014with the innocent sometimes paying for the guilty\u2014is now added an unfriendly post-crisis environment in at least three areas.    <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Rold\u00e1n, Chairman of the Spanish Banking Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aebanca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/08-201600728.pdf\">Download the article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors are unable to read the sector&#8217;s navigational chart, leading to heart-stopping sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","etiquetas":[330,287,310,594,359],"categorias-blog":[783],"class_list":["post-36267","blog-aeb","type-blog-aeb","status-publish","hentry","etiquetas-aeb","etiquetas-banca","etiquetas-crisis","etiquetas-inversiones","etiquetas-jose-maria-roldan","categorias-blog-presidency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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