The general meeting of shareholders of Bankinter, held today, has approved the payment of a dividend of 0.15 euros gross by action that will take place on April 2.
This is Bankinter’s third dividend charged to 2025. During the past year the firm paid two more ordinary dividends. A first payment of 0.1503 euros, paid on June 25, and a second, of 0.3012, was made on December 2. If these two payments are added to the one scheduled for April, Bankinter will distribute a total of 545 million euros among its shareholders at a rate of 0.606 euros per share corresponding to the results for the year 2025, which implies the largest dividend in its history.
The ex-dividend date for this third payment is set for March 31, which means that Investors interested in collecting it must be shareholders as of Monday, March 30. The total dividend represents a Pay Out of 50%.
Other points of the meeting
The board has also given the green light to the re-election of the executive director Alfonso Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y Naveda and the independent director Teresa Martín-Retortillo Rubio. Likewise, it has ratified the setting of the number of directors at 12.
In addition, the board has supported the appointment of the firm PwC as verifier of the sustainability information corresponding to the years 2026, 2027 and 2028 of Bankinter and its group, which will also act as auditor of the accounts for the years 2026, 2027 and 2028.
The meeting has been entirely telematic, with the objective of «facilitating the participation and monitoring of this call by all shareholders under equivalent conditions and guaranteeing the full exercise of their rights in an agile, accessible and secure manner», as the entity had previously explained.
In accordance with the constitution quorum, shareholders representing 1.255% of the share capital, with 11.28 million shares, were present at the meeting. Likewise, 74.39% of the capital has been represented, equivalent to 668.68 million shares. Thus, the total has been set at 75.64% of the share capital, with 679.96 million shares.
Dancausa expects a good 2026 despite the uncertainty
During the shareholders’ meeting, the president of Bankinter, María Dolores Dancausa, trusted that the financial entity will continue to operate positively in its main geographies despite the «notable» uncertainty that currently exists.
“We are convinced that 2026 will be a year in which we will continue to strengthen our presence in Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Luxembourg,” Dancausa stated during the meeting. He has also expressed confidence that the bank will boost its growth capacity in all businesses and customer segments where it can “contribute and generate more value.” In addition, the digital transformation will be accelerated towards a model “leveraged by intelligent data management and the use of artificial intelligence in all processes.”
The good performance that is predicted for the bank will occur despite the fact that the president considers that the current environment is challenging. “The accumulation of open, changing and increasingly complex geopolitical scenarios significantly increases uncertainty,” he stated.
Although the Spanish economy performed better than the European economy as a whole, Dancausa has warned that «this macroeconomic dynamism has not yet been transferred to the microeconomic level, where structural imbalances persist that directly affect the well-being of citizens.» Among these challenges is access to housing for urban youth and families. In his opinion, solving this problem “requires more ambitious action plans and a determined involvement of all political and social forces.”
The president also took advantage of her intervention to remember that the financial sector was marked last year by BBVA’s failed takeover bid (OPA) for Banco Sabadell. “It was an episode that meant significant wear and tear on both entities,” explained Dancausa. In his opinion, this has reinforced the bank’s decision to maintain its independence and not participate in corporate movements that, despite seeming attractive, “do not always respond to a logic of value creation.”
“While other entities in the sector project their growth and future through acquisition or merger processes, Bankinter remains faithful to a growth model based on innovation,” he emphasized.