[1] During 2011 and 2012, CatalunyaCaixa received a total of €12.052 billion capital investment from the Spanish government's Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria (Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring).

The September 2011 capital injection effectively nationalised the bank, raising FROB's ownership to 89.74%.

Catalunya Banc, operating under the commercial brand CatalunyaCaixa, had been part of this banking group since April 2015, with BBVA directly holding 98.4% of its share capital.

[4] On May 13, 2016, the shareholders' meeting of Catalunya Banc approved the integration of the Catalan entity into BBVA.

[8] On September 1, 2016, BBVA and Catalunya Banc formalized the merger deed, by which the bank presided over by Francisco González absorbed the latter, after obtaining authorization from the Ministry of Economy and completing the other procedures established by law.