Christiana Riley will succeed Tim Wennes as CEO of Santander in the United States, the bank's executive chair, Ana Botin, said on Friday, as Santander undertakes a wider global restructuring.
Santander UK's board chair William Vereker has indicated his intention to step down during the course of 2025, the British unit of the Spanish lender said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Stephen Stanley, Santander U.S. Capital Markets chief U.S. economist, and CNBC's Steve Liesman join 'The Exchange' to discuss expectations for the Federal Reserve, outlooks on the economy, and more.
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Santander's boss has dismissed stories that it is looking to pull out of the UK as the invention of investment bankers. Speaking in Davos, executive chairman Ana Botin insisted “We love the UK” following reports in the Financial Times that the Spanish bank is reconsidering its presence here.
Britain is and will remain a core market for Santander , its executive chair Ana Botin said at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Tuesday.
Ana Botín, executive chair of Banco Santander and chair of the World Economic Forum International Business Council, discusses the European business landscape.
Santander is mulling quitting the UK due to lower returns than other countries, a source told the Financial Times The lender's Spanish parent company is considering a number of options, they said, due to "frustrations" with the UK in recent years. Santander UK suffers from various problems, the former executive said, including a "persistently high cost base, the UK's ring-fencing regime, its independent board, and the fact that it did not benefit from rising interest rates in recent years as much as its other markets like Spain".
Santander is reportedly rethinking its U.K. presence 20 years after entering the British banking market. The Spanish lender is weighing a number of options, including exiting the U.K. entirely, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Jan. 19), citing sources familiar with the matter.
Banco Santander is reconsidering its presence in Britain two decades after its acquisition of Abbey National made it a major player on UK high streets, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Stephen Stanley, Santander U.S. Capital Markets chief U.S. economist, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss November's Federal Reserve minutes.