"Banco Santander, S.A., working as Santander Team, is a Spanish international industrial bank and economic services business based in Madrid and Santander in Spain. Additionally, Santander preserves an existence in all international monetary centres as the 16th-largest financial organization in the world. Although recognized for its European banking operations, it has expanded operations throughout North as well as South America, and also more recently in continental Asia.

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

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