Implemented a share sale of 7. 5 billion euros. Well, in her First Television interview since becoming chairman, i speak exclusively to ana botin about her vision, emerging markets, and regulation. Ana botin, thank you so much for joining us here at bloomberg. We have seen these huge changes in the last 12 months. Are we going to see more, or are you happy where the bank is now . Ana the last 12 months have been very intense. The Capital Raise and changing the dividend policy, but more important the governance of the people changes on the board. Not just as a group but in many subsidiaries and the team. We changed the ceos in our five big countries. That is over. We are ready to actually start executing on our strategy. Francine and your strategy is what simpler and fairer . Ana santander has a very strong base, so we are present in 10 core geographies. 10 countries. Santander consumer markets with a billion people where we have 170 million customers. And so everything, our focus Going
Over from her father and quickly implemented a share sale of 7. 5 billion euros. Well, in her First Television interview since becoming chairman, i speak exclusively to ana botin about her vision, emerging markets, and regulation. Ana botin, thank you so much for joining us here at bloomberg. We have seen these huge changes in the last 12 months. Are we going to see more, or are you happy where the bank is now . Ana the last 12 months have been very intense. The Capital Raise and changing the dividend policy, but more important the governance of the people changes on the board. Not just as a group but in many subsidiaries and the team. We changed the ceos in our five big countries. That is over. We are ready to actually start executing on our strategy. Francine and your strategy is what simpler and fairer . Ana santander has a very strong base, so we are present in 10 core geographies. 10 countries. Santander consumer markets with a billion people where we have 170 million customers. A
Chairman, i speak exclusively to ana botin about her vision, emerging markets, and regulation. Ana botin, thank you so much for joining us here at bloomberg. We have seen these huge changes in the last 12 months. Are we going to see more, or are you happy where the bank is now . Ana the last 12 months have been very intense. The Capital Raise and changing the dividend policy, but more important the governance of the people changes on the board. Not just as a group but in many subsidiaries and the team. We changed the ceos in our five big countries. That is over. We are ready to actually start executing on our strategy. Francine and your strategy is what simpler and fairer . Ana santander has a very strong base, so we are present in 10 core geographies. 10 countries. Santander consumer markets with a billion people where we have 170 million customers. And so everything, our focus Going Forward is going to be how to do more business with these customers. A hundred million are in our bank
Euro zone, where they stake their claim to rapid expansion on the continent. Hello. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And i am an edwards. And i am manus cranny. 6 30 here in london, a guest will join us. And we have a chinese theme. It has been a torrid day, the shanghai composite falling by more than 6 today, and the reason is the suspension of three firms. They are controlling margin investing due to a concern that a recent stern show search in stock prices could have a negative effect. Cutting back on the brokerages is their money. That is right. They are trying to curb people from buying into this rally this ultra bull rally, and it was up 60 last year until todays fall. We are talking 290 billion dollars of market cap has just been wiped out in just one day not a great day in the shanghai composite. It is the steepest drop, the most in five years again after the three biggest brokerages were stopped from adding more margin trading accounts, and they were suspended for three
Welcome to countdown. Anna coming up this morning another bloomberg exclusive, we will go live to paris and speak to the ceo of j. Crew as they open their first boutique in the country. Mark and cather Qatar Airways chief executive talks about his rival delta. Lets get to one of our top stories, Chinas National Peoples Congress continues today. As was widely expected the premier set out an Economic Growth plan of 7 . Rosalynn joins us from beijing with more. What do you know about this figure . Rosalynn it indicates theyre trying to project a slowdown and are encouraging innovation which includes the quality of growth. Here in china. He has said in the past that he will tolerate a lower level of growth as long as enough jobs were created. If you look at last year, the growth hits 7. 4 and there were 13 million jobs created interurban areas in urban areas. Way more than the target. A 7 figure is manageable because there will still be growth in the job market. This number does reflect th