"Banco Santander, S.A., doing business as Santander Group, is a Spanish international industrial bank and economic services business based in Madrid as well as Santander in Spain. In addition, Santander maintains a presence in all global economic centres as the 16th-largest banking institution in the world. Although known for its European banking operations, it has actually extended procedures throughout North as well as South America, and more lately in continental Asia.

Lots of subsidiaries, such as Abbey National, have been rebranded under the Santander name. The firm is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 securities market index. In May 2016, Santander was rated as 37th in the Forbes Global 2000 checklist of the globe's biggest public companies. Santander is Spain's biggest financial institution.

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