BarcelonaIf a family photo of the main bankers in Spain had been taken in 2007, two Catalan executives would have appeared in the image. They were Isidre Fainé (Manresa, 1942) and Josep Oliu (Sabadell, 1949). The former was president of the Pension Fund (when it was still a savings bank) and the latter held the same position at Banco Sabadell. At that time, shortly before the Great Recession, they both had a solid career and were in a moment of professional fulfillment as they approached the threshold of standard retirement: Fainé was 65 years old and Oliu was on his way to 59. Yes the same family photo we took 15 years later, of the bankers of that time we would still find two in the picture: Fainé himself, who will turn 80 in July and chairs the influential La Caixa Banking Foundation, and Oliu, who now he has 72. And nothing indicates that they are thinking of leaving him.
Fainé and Oliu, the last bankers of an era
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