"Banco Santander, S.A., operating as Santander Group, is a Spanish multinational commercial financial institution and financial solutions firm based in Madrid and Santander in Spain. In addition, Santander keeps an existence in all worldwide monetary centres as the 16th-largest banking establishment worldwide. Although understood for its European banking procedures, it has expanded operations across North as well as South America, as well as a lot more lately in continental Asia.

Many subsidiaries, such as Abbey National, have actually been rebranded under the Santander name. The business belongs of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock exchange index. In May 2016, Santander was rated as 37th in the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest public firms. Santander is Spain's biggest bank.

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