Banco Santander SA

Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH), (IBEX-35:SAN) is the largest bank in Spain and is part of the Santander Group which has large scale operations in the continents of Europe and South America. As part of the Santander Group, Banco Santander Central Hispano bases its strategy on its own business model, based upon a five pillar system. These are: Within Spain BSCH operates under a range of brand names including: In the United Kingdom, Abbey (bank) is a wholely owned subsidiary of BSCH. Prior to its takeover by BSCH, it was known as Abbey National, the first of the UK building societies to demutualise. It also operates as Cahoot for online banking. BSCH was created in 1999 following the merger of Banco Santander (founded in...