Banco Santander is a global multinational bank in 2012 was confirmed for the third time in recent years, such as the Best Bank in the World, according to the annual ranking of Euromoney . At the end of last year, Santander was the largest in the Eurozone and one of the thirteen largest in the world by market capitalization: 63.000 million euros.

Based on a business model that focuses on products and commercial banking services to individuals, small businesses and companies, Santander now serves over 100 million customers a global network of 14,400 offices, the largest banking international. Manages funds 1,388 billion euros for all customer segments, has more than 3.3 million employees and 187,000 shareholders.

Founded in 1857 in the Spanish city of Santander on 76 businessmen linked to the regional economy and colonial trade in Spain with America, over one hundred Banco Santander rose during the twentieth century all rungs of the financial ladder to become the twenty-first century in a global banking leader concerning good management and solvency of the sector, with a strong presence in ten countries on two continents, Europe and America, and businesses in more than forty different markets.

Today, Santander is the largest financial group in his home country, Spain, and also in Latin America, a continent where its most important markets are Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina. It has achieved very high positions in the UK, Germany, Portugal, Poland and the U.S. northeast. It also offers consumer financing, in addition to these major markets in the Nordic countries plus the Netherlands, Austria, Italy and Belgium.