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Santander

Public
+2
Banking137,000+ employeesFounded 1998🇪🇸 Spain
Headquarters
🇪🇸Boadilla Del Monte, Madrid (+3)
Industry
Banking
Employees
137,000+
Founded
1998
Company type
Public Company
Ranking
#4,438,929
Ticker
NYSE: SAN

Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group’s activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Digital Consumer Bank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance and Payments (PagoNxt and Cards). This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support this objective, including raising €220 billion in green financing between 2019 and 2030. In the first quarter of 2024, Banco Santander had €1.3 trillion in total funds, 166 million customers, 8,400 branches and 211,000 employees.

Specialties
Financial ServicesBankingInvestment Services
19 / 19
Active markets
Brazil · Hong Kong · Chile
0
New markets
none this period
452
Signals
Last 90 days
+57%
Momentum
vs prior period
Expansion ScoreDeveloping
42 / 100

Global expansion

Live
BrazilHong KongChile
Up to 3 markets
Last 90 days
Stages
Exploring5Committing11Expanding3Scaling0
Recent activity
Advancing30d
New90d
+16more marketsLocked
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Activity pulse

457 signals in the last 90 days.

Last 90 days
Hiring
78↑ +139%
Hiring
Marketing & PR
379↑ +92%
Advertising
Product & Tech
0
No activity
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Market entry timeline

The order this company entered each market — oldest to newest

1
🇭🇰Hong Kong1st market entered · 2014
Committing
52 signals
2
🇧🇷Brazil2nd market entered · 2020
Expanding
85 signals
3
🇨🇱Chile3rd market entered · 2024
Expanding
49 signals
+16more marketsLocked
3 of 19 shown
Current stageExpandingGrowing a local footprint
Confidence41%Medium
Tracking since2014first signal

Recent signals

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Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group’s activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Digital Consumer Bank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance and Payments (PagoNxt and Cards). This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support this objective, including raising €220 billion in green financing between 2019 and 2030. In the first quarter of 2024, Banco Santander had €1.3 trillion in total funds, 166 million customers, 8,400 branches and 211,000 employees.

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