 The bank's main business activity was commercial banking, corporate banking, Internet and telephone banking, and treasury and capital markets.The bank had 4,035 employees as of 2005, 555 branches in Spain and 3 abroad.Founded in 1776 by Jaime Dalmau Batista as "Jaime Dalmau y Cía" (Jaime Dalmau and Company), who had a shipping company operating between the port of A Coruña and several American ports.