"Banco Santander, S.A., operating as Santander Team, is a Spanish international commercial financial institution as well as economic services company based in Madrid as well as Santander in Spain. Additionally, Santander preserves a visibility in all worldwide monetary centres as the 16th-largest financial institution worldwide. Although known for its European banking procedures, it has expanded operations across North and South America, as well as much more just recently in continental Asia.

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

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