"Banco Santander, S.A., operating as Santander Group, is a Spanish multinational business bank and economic solutions firm based in Madrid and Santander in Spain. In addition, Santander preserves a visibility in all global monetary centres as the 16th-largest banking institution in the world. Although understood for its European banking procedures, it has actually expanded operations across North and also South America, and a lot more just recently in continental Asia.

Lots of subsidiaries, such as Abbey National, have been rebranded under the Santander name. The firm belongs of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. In May 2016, Santander was placed as 37th in the Forbes Global 2000 listing of the world's biggest public firms. Santander is Spain's biggest financial institution.

As of 2017, Santander is the 5th biggest financial institution in Europe with around US$ 1.4 trillion in complete assets-under-management (AUM). [3] Traded on the Euro Stoxx 50 securities market index, the bank has a complete market capitalization of $69.9 billion."