"To serve its customers and support the commercial network, the Group has a flexible, flat organisation made up of a team of 16,501 staff, 14,680 of whom are in Spain (approximately 4,000 of them from Banco Pastor) and 1,821 in Portugal and the United States. The Group’s vocation for creating value in the long term is also reflected in its human resources policy focused on internal promotion and work-life balance that contributes to a more expert and motivated workforce. The Group has made efforts to incorporate work-life balance into its culture and values, and has defined a variety of work- life balance measures which many of the Group’s staff are now enjoying. The Group consists of a controlling company (Banco Popular); two foreign banks, both of them wholly-owned: Banco Popular Portugal, and TotalBank, operating in the state of Florida, United States; as well as other banks and financial service companies. Banco Popular Portugal shares the parent company’s technology platform and is integrated in its central services. But it also maintains a structure of its own in order to comply with Portuguese regulations and to respond to the special characteristics of its customers. In addition to the banks mentioned above, the Group has two other deposit-taking entities: Banco Popular-e (specialising in online financial services) and Popular Banca Privada (asset management). The Group also has affiliates specialising in factoring, managing mutual funds, pension funds and plans, securities and stock markets, a share ownership company, renting, insurance and a number of special-purpose financial and asset-holding companies, with which it covers substantially all the financial services demanded by its customers"
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