Banco Santander is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group’s activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Openbank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance, and Payments. This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander’s open financial services platform provides services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions, and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal, and fair way. At the end of 2025, Banco Santander had €1.4 trillion in total funds, more than 180 million customers, 7,100 branches, and 198,000 employees.
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB) is Santander’s global division that supports corporate and institutional clients, offering tailored services and value-added wholesale products suited to their complexity and sophistication, as well as to responsible banking standards that contribute to the progress of society.