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By the end of the 15th century Santander had a population of about 4,000 or 5,000 inhabitants. [9] The city owes its existence to the excellent harbour of the Bay of Santander. Santander was an important port for Castile in the later Middle Ages, and also for trade with the New World. It officially became a city in 1755. [10]
Banco Santander S.A. trading as Santander Group (UK: / ˌ s æ n t ən ˈ d ɛər,-t æ n-/ SAN-tən-DAIR, -tan-, US: / ˌ s ɑː n t ɑː n ˈ d ɛər / SAHN-tahn-DAIR, [2] [3] Spanish: [ˈbaŋko santanˈdeɾ]), is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Santander, with operative offices in Madrid.
This is a list of banks in Spain. Spain has 10 banking groups that are directly supervised by the European Central Bank. As of September 2021, the "big four" in Spain are: Banco Santander; BBVA; CaixaBank; Banco Sabadell
Openbank is a direct bank headquartered in Madrid, Spain. [2] Since its foundation in 1995, it has been a subsidiary of Grupo Santander. According to the Spanish Banking Association, nearly 1,350,000 accounts had been registered with the bank as of 2016. Openbank currently operates in Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
In May 2024, Santander Bank notified its customers of unauthorized access to Snowflake, a third-party database system. Santander's statement stated that hackers successfully accessed data of 30 million customers of Santander Chile, Spain and Uruguay, as well as all current and some former Santander employees. [23]
Banco Popular Español, S.A. (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaŋko popuˈlaɾ espaˈɲol]) was the sixth largest banking group in Spain before it was bought by Banco Santander as part of a rescue package in June 2017. [1]
It is Spain's third-largest lender by market value, after Banco Santander and BBVA. CaixaBank has 5,397 branches to serve its 15.8 million customers, and has the most extensive branch network in the Spanish market. [1] It is listed in the Bolsa de Madrid and is part of the IBEX 35.
The Bay of Santander is both a comarca of Cantabria and the largest estuary on the North coast of Spain, with an extension of 22.42 km 2 (9 km long and 5 km wide). Due to the influence of Santander and its metropolitan area, [3] nearly half of the population of the autonomous community of Cantabria is gathered around it, [4] which makes the anthropic pressure on this area of water quite notable.