Mais Madoff e Santander

Do Financial Times:

Santander, the Spanish bank, said it would offer preferred shares to individual private banking clients – but not institutional investors – who lost money in the alleged fraud by US broker Bernard Madoff in exchange for a promise not to sue.

The biggest bank in the eurozone will offer clients the amount they invested and lost but not the full nominal value of their holdings at the time Mr Madoff was arrested in December. The bank said it was the first to offer a settlement to Madoff investors.

The Santander preferred shares, yielding 2 per cent a year, would be bought back by the bank after 10 years and have a face value of €1.38bn. The cost to the bank of €500m will be taken in the 2008 accounts to be announced next week.

Santander has said its clients lost €2.33bn more than any other bank hit by the Madoff scandal, and its customers in Spain, Latin America and elsewhere are up in arms over the loss of their investments.

Como será que isso afeta os clientes brasileiros?