OBITUARY-Emilio Botin: the conquistador of Spanish banking
September 10, 2014 at 09:05 AM EDT
MADRID, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Emilio Botin, patriarch of one of Europe's top corporate dynasties who died on Tuesday at 79, was credited with turning a local Spanish lender into one of the world's biggest banks and helping to drive Spain's remarkable economic growth of the 1990s.