The second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Diazafter knowing the record results of the BBVA in 2022, he has made it ugly on one of his social networks that the crisis cannot be an excuse for banks to earn more, for which he has called for freezing mortgages and moderating benefits.
“While the rise in the Euribor will make the average mortgage more expensive by 250 euros per month, the benefits of the BBVA grew 38% to reach 6,420 million, the largest in its history”, he summarized Díaz in a tweet, before adding that the crisis cannot be an excuse to earn more and ask that mortgages be frozen and benefits be moderated.
The diversification of BBVA, what do you have in Mexico its main source of income explains to a large extent this advance in results. In spain The bank earned 1,678 million, 8.4% more, thanks to the greater activity and the increase in income. Precisely these incomes will be used to determine the rate that the entity will have to pay this year and the next after approval by the Government of an extraordinary tax that remains to be seen if the sector will appeal to the courts.
The BBVA is one of the entities that signed the new Code of Good Practices in Spain to help families with the most difficulties in paying their mortgages, although its social contribution began from the bank’s own activity, which channeled more than 9,000 million euros in loans to entrepreneurs, sustainable infrastructures, social bonds or mortgages and social insurance .
