Santander, an introduction...
Santander is the largest bank in Spain. Through its subsidiaries, Santander has large scale operations throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States of America. It is the seventh largest financial institution in the world by market capitalization. In the UK, Santander acquired Abbey National in November 2004 and the Alliance & Leicester in October 2008.
Santander has over 131,819 employees, more than 65 million customers, 11,200 branches and three million shareholders.