Revolut will open rooms vips to the main airports in Europe starting in 2027 with the aim of establishing the largest network of such spaces in the world. The British neobank announced this Thursday the initiative – christened Revolut Lounge – which aims to leverage the group's brand "beyond financial products".

The country's main wine-growing organizations are joining forces against the "abusive" purchase prices expected in this year's harvest. In a joint statement collected this Thursday by Unió de Pagesos, the associations denounce that the compensation being discussed in the sector by large wineries such as Jaume Serra – part of the García Carrión group – and other producers, such as Celler Can Pagès or Vins Font, are around 0.3 euros per kilogram of grapes, a figure that is less than half the reference production cost of between 0.53 and 0.56 euros per kilo established by the Institut Català de la Vinya i el Vi (Incavi).

El Prat Airport is on its way to exceeding its maximum capacity for the third consecutive year. After 2025, when the airport once again surpassed its theoretical influx – its limit is 55 million passengers annually – this year records are being broken all records. According to the latest data published this Wednesday by Aena, the Barcelona airport has registered 34.2 million passengers during the first seven months of the year, 4.6% more than the same period last year. In July alone, almost 5.9 million travelers were received, 6% more compared to July 2025.

The large Spanish banking sector continues to defend its actions in the mortgage market despite the investigation opened in June by the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC). According to financial sources consulted by the Efe agency, the arguments put forward by the supervisory body have "very little basis" and recall that the Competition Commission already dismissed a complaint against the four major state banks – Santander, BBVA, CaixaBank, and Banco Sabadell – for the low profitability of their client deposits.

The British-origin neobank Revolut obtained a full banking license in France this Monday, after a joint evaluation by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the French supervisory body, the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR, for its French acronym).

Pepe Raventós (Barcelona, 1974) left the Cava Designation of Origin (DO) in 2012 due to his dissatisfaction with a model that, in his words, "has confused counting bottles as a measure of success" and has sidelined the "creation of value" for the farmer, the consumer, and the territory. Over the past few years, the general director of Raventós i Blanc has worked to create a new DO for sparkling wines that groups together the wineries of Penedès that wish to commit to quality and compete with other prestigious regions such as Champagne or French Burgundy. Coinciding with the start of the harvest, Pepe Reventós vindicates the history and properties of the Penedès terroir for producing highly recognized grapes and believes that the region is facing a unique opportunity to take the definitive step forward.After a few years of drought, he maintains that the sparkling wines of Penedès are facing a great opportunity to build their future wine-growing model. For what reasons?

Unió de Pagesos regrets the "pressure" that cava winegrowers are suffering despite the announcement made yesterday by the Cava Designation of Origin (DO) Cava, where it assured that it will maintain the price of grapes during the 2026 harvest. After the DO Cava published its estimates on remuneration to farmers – based on information provided by 70% of the market – the agricultural union points out that the data "only reflect a part of the market reality" and that the economic situation of the sector "cannot be assessed solely on the price of grapes".

The Designation of Origin (DO) Cava begins the 2026 harvest, assuring that it will maintain grape prices – according to estimates based on information provided by 70% of the market – despite initial forecasts of a production surplus. In a statement released this Wednesday, the organization indicates that it will inject nearly one hundred million euros to the territory's winegrowers, comprising 6,200 families covering around 200 wineries.

Almost half of Catalan family businesses in the retail sector —46%— believe they would have sold more during July if it hadn't been for the recent heatwaves that have hit Catalonia. While the sector presents itself as a climate refuge when temperatures are "unbearable", the Comertia association —which groups more than 65 businesses and 160 brands— believes that the record highs registered on thermometers have had negative effects on income. "The fact that people go out less makes it such that, in some cases, sales are not as high as they could have been," acknowledges the organization's president, Ignasi Pietx.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners obtained a profit of 991 million euros at the close of the first half of this 2026, 5.8% more than in the same period of the previous year. On the other hand, the company's revenues grew by 4.4% year-on-year, to 10,724 million euros, according to the results presented by the company this Tuesday to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV).

Richard Fuld dedicated practically his entire working life to climbing the ranks within Lehman Brothers until, in 1994, he became its CEO. Known by the nickname of "Wall Street gorilla, the New York banker established a culture of risk within the company that bordered on irresponsibility: a modus operandi which ended up leading to the entity's downfall and turned the executive into the main architect of the 2008 financial crisis.

The Catalan economy could lose at least 0.5 percentage points of its gross domestic product (GDP, the indicator that measures the size of an economy) due to the impact of heat waves. This is the figure provided by Caixa Enginyers in a study published this Monday based on data from the scientific journal Nature, which takes into account the effects of previous heatwaves on economic activity in the country. According to the entity's research service, Catalonia – along with the rest of Spain – would be one of the regions most affected by extreme phenomena in Europe. In fact, the study places Spain as the fifth country on the Old Continent where extreme climatic episodes can most affect the economy.

The implementation of new artificial intelligence tools in the Spanish banking sector is not impacting the staff of the large state entities, for now. With the exception of Banco Santander —which has cut almost 8,400 jobs globally over the last twelve months— the other five Ibex entities have added, over the last year, up to one hundred employees. According to the semi-annual income statements presented in recent weeks to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the group formed by CaixaBank, Banc Sabadell, BBVA, Bankinter, and Unicaja had 99,539 employees at the end of June, slightly above the 99,439 registered at the same time last year.

The Spanish economy maintained its high growth rate of recent years in the second quarter of 2026, above the European average. However, at the same time, the cost of living for families continues to rise, and this July will close at its highest levels since May 2024.

BBVA continues to grow alone after having turned the page on the failed takeover bid about Banco Sabadell. The entity registered a record profit of 6,051 million euros during the first half of 2026, 10% more than the same period last year at constant exchange rates, that is, eliminating the effects of currency devaluation or appreciation. According to the bank, the improvement is due to the evolution of recurring income, driven mainly by a 17.7% increase in lending.

Grifols earned 227 million euros during the first half of this year, 28.2% more than in the same period of the previous fiscal year. The Catalan multinational of plasma-derived medicines attributes the improvement, in large part, to the evolution of its biopharma division, its main source of income. According to the results published this Tuesday to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the turnover of this area reached 3,148 million euros by June, 5.4% more year-on-year at constant exchange rates.

The food company Pastas Gallo, born in Rubí in 1946, is the paradigmatic example of a complicated family succession. With a widely recognized brand, innovation as its hallmark, and consolidated results, the disagreements among the five children of the founder, José Espona, led the heirs to divest their majority stake in 2019 and sell it to the Madrid private equity fund Proa Capital. Although three of the five brothers later returned to the group – albeit with lower participation than initially – the company lost part of its essence. Two years after the operation, Pastas Gallo moved the production of dry pasta from Granollers to Córdoba, and during the last two available financial years – with the asterisk of having faced investments of more than 50 million euros – it has registered losses that have exceeded six million euros.

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced the launch of a state fertilizer plan to mitigate Spain's dependence on the Middle East, a region that concentrates – through the Strait of Hormuz – one-third of the world's fertilizer trade. At an event held this Monday in San Martín de la Vega (Madrid), the head of the executive indicated that he expects the initiative to be completed during the first quarter of 2027, with three lines of action that he considers "priorities": the commitment to precision agriculture, strategic autonomy, and price transparency.

Ignasi Pietx (Barcelona, 1965) is the general director of the design and printing company Artyplan and current president of Comertia, the Catalan employers' association for retail trade. Just at the midpoint of his term at the head of the entity, the executive reviews the main demands of the Catalan family business in the retail sector, in two years marked by a good economic performance at the macro level, but at the same time a global instability that has diminished consumer confidence.This June marks two years since his appointment as president of Comertia. In all this time, has trade in Catalonia improved or worsened?

The President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, leaves the door open to leaving her post at the institution early to contribute to the debate around the next presidential elections in France, scheduled for April 2027. "It is possible," declared the also former French Finance Minister in an interview with the French newspaper Les Échos, to whom she was asked if she was considering leaving the presidency of the eurozone's highest monetary body to participate in political discussions in the country.