SRB still holds most of the cards after Banco Popular shareholders’ partial victory

The Single Resolution Board was wrong to wholly redact the Spanish bank’s valuation report but it will fight hard to keep its workings as opaque as possible.

On November 28, the Appeals Panel of the Single Resolution Board published its conclusions on the SRB resolution of Spain’s Banco Popular. The bank’s sale to Banco Santander prompted a record number of legal cases against the procedure and decision-making that led to the takeover.

A particularly contentious part of the disputes concerns SRB’s refusal to release an unredacted version of the valuation report prepared by Deloitte that backed its decision to declare the bank failing or likely to fail.

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