MADRID (Reuters) - Emilio Botin, patriarch of one of Europe's top corporate dynasties who died on Tuesday at 79, was credited with turning a local Spanish lender into one of the world's biggest banks ...

MADRID (AP) — Spanish banking magnate Emilio Botin, who built the country’s Banco Santander into a global financial giant and was widely seen as the nation’s most influential business leader, has died ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emilio Botin, Executive Chairman of Spain's biggest bank Santander, takes part in the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in ...

MADRID—The death of Emilio Botín, one of the world's leading bankers, caps an era of full-tilt expansion that transformed Banco Santander SA from a regional Spanish lender into the largest bank in the ...

Emilio Botín, who has died aged 79, was the third-generation chairman of Banco Santander, which he transformed from a modest Spanish regional lender into one of the world’s most successful commercial ...

Emilio Botín, chairman of the Banco Santander and major arts patron, died of a heart attack at age 79 on Tuesday night in his Madrid house. The company announced Botín’s death on Wednesday morning and ...

The city of Santander bid farewell to its native son Emilio Botin as he was taken to his final resting place on a tree-lined estate that’s been in his family for 300 years. The Banco Santander SA ...

Andrea Orcel, Europe’s most famous investment banker, was poised to become the new chief executive of Santander. But the bank refused to pay him compensation earned at his previous post. By David ...

MADRID (AP) – Spanish banking magnate Emilio Botín, who built the country's Banco Santander into a global financial giant and was widely seen as the nation's most influential business leader, has died ...

The markets are wreaking havoc on fortunes in Spain--and not just of Spain's middle class. One of our billionaires is now off the list, thanks in part to a downgraded credit rating for Banco Santander ...