The British bank ABBEY NATIONAL annual turn-over for 2003 EUR 10.652 bn with assets of EUR 268.2 bn, 2,6000 workers and 17.8 million customers) has accepted the take-over offer made its Spanish counterpart SCH - SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO (turn-over EUR 26.108 bn with assets of 351.8 bn in 2003, a workforce of 103000 and 41 million customers), a deal that will create the tenth biggest bank in the world and the largest in the Euro zone in terms of stock market capitalisation (EUR 51 bn)....