Botín: Putting the boot in

One does not mess with the head of the Botín clan, Spain's most powerful banking dynasty, even if you happen to be the boss's daughter.

Ana Patricia Botín, the 38-year-old daughter and widely acclaimed heir apparent to Banco Santander’s chairman Emilio Botín, came down with a bump a month after the announcement of the mega-merger between the family-run bank and Banco Central Hispano (BCH).

BSCH, as the merged bank will call itself, dropped a bombshell with its first press release stating that Ana Patricia had “relinquished all executive responsibilities within the group”, while retaining a seat on the bank’s new board.

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