Citibank in Spain is not considered a good bank. Keep in mind that the financial sector was one of the first ones liberalized, it is very internationalized and very comptetitive. Is one of our most powerful industries.
If you ask which is the best bank I would answer: what do you expect? It always depend on what you want from the bank.
If you want to leave the money alone for long periods of time then your choice is a Caja (for example Caja de Madrid,
www.cajamadrid.es .)
If what you want is a place to temporally keep your money with almost no return for it, but you want to have a very extended ATM machines net, then your choice is a big bank, as Santander Central Hispano or Banco Bilbao Vizcaya
http://www.santandercentralhispano.es ,
www.bbva.es ).
Perhaps what you need is other kinds of services, as buying theater and cinema tickets from the Internet, a good reimbursment (return) and a reasonable net of ATM machines. Then your choice would be La Caixa (
www.lacaixa.es ).
If what you want is to have a very big return, then don't put it in a bank. You may put it in an investment fund, in La Bolsa (budget, buying small percentages of companies, like in the Dow Jones) or in other such investment.
Hope this helps.
Fernando
[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: MadridMan ]
[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Fernando ]