2012-05-09yahoo.com

Spain will swoop in with public money this week to clean up huge bad loans at the nation's fourth-biggest listed bank, Bankia, the government said Monday.

As news emerged of the impending rescue of Bankia, created in 2010 from a merger of seven savings banks, its executive chairman Rodrigo Rato announced his resignation.

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The leading daily El Pais estimated Bankia would need 5-10 billion euros ($6.5-13 billion) to repair its balance sheet. Business daily Expansion put the figure at 5-7 billion euros.

Those reports were "not far off track", said the official, declining however to give any figure.



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