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Global Trade Alert

Venezuela: Nationalisation of Banco de Venezuela owned by the Spanish Bank Santander

Announcement

22 May 2009

In May 2009, the government of Venezuela announced altered domestic business conditions for foreign investors.

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Number of interventions

1

0 certainly harmful

1 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

1 in force

Implementation date

22 May 2009

Revocation date:

No revocation date

FDI: Treatment and operations, nes In force

On May 22, 2009, the Venezuelan government nationalised Banco de Venezuela. It bought it for USD 1.050 billion from the Spanish Bank Santander. Banco de Venezuela had been nationalised in 1994. Two ye...

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