"Banco Santander, S.A., operating as Santander Team, is a Spanish international business bank as well as financial services firm based in Madrid and also Santander in Spain. Furthermore, Santander keeps an existence in all worldwide monetary centres as the 16th-largest financial organization in the world. Although recognized for its European financial operations, it has actually extended operations throughout North and also South America, as well as extra lately in continental Asia.

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

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