"Banco Santander, S.A., doing business as Santander Team, is a Spanish multinational industrial bank and also economic services firm based in Madrid and Santander in Spain. In addition, Santander preserves a presence in all global monetary centres as the 16th-largest financial institution in the world. Although recognized for its European banking procedures, it has prolonged procedures across North and also South America, and also extra just recently in continental Asia.

Many subsidiaries, such as Abbey National, have been rebranded under the Santander name. The business belongs of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. In May 2016, Santander was ranked as 37th in the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's greatest public companies. Santander is Spain's largest financial institution.

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