- About Santander
Bank Polska - Strategy
and Management - Customers
- Introduction
- Our priorities – Bank As You Want It
- Multichannel approach – anyway you like it
- Accessible to all – You can count on us
- Security first
- Excellent customer service
- Ethical communication – simple and friendly language
- Responsible selling and prevention of misselling
- Our approach to complaints
- Knowledge that pays off
- Products and initiatives for retail customers
- Products and initiatives for SME customers
- Products and initiatives for customers of the Business and Corporate Banking Division
- Corporate and investment banking
- Support to customers in financial difficulty
- Employees
- Social
Engagement - About
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About Santander Group
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Banco Santander S.A., the majority shareholder of the Santander Group, is a commercial bank founded 160 years ago, with a registered office in Santander and operational headquarters in Madrid. Banco Santander operates mainly in retail banking and is also active in the area of private banking, business and corporate banking, asset management and insurance.
The Santander Group currently focuses its business activities on 10 core markets, both developed and emerging:
- It has a strong market position in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, the USA, Poland, Portugal and the UK.
- It is also present in consumer finance markets in Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Poland and the Scandinavian countries).
In 2017, Banco Santander S.A. was the 12th largest bank in the world and the second1 largest in Europe.
1 According to the data published on the statistical portal as at 25 April 2017 (www.statista.com)
Main countries | |
Santander Consumer Finance |
Banco Santander in numbers1
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>132 m
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13.7k
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202k
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1,444.3
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106.8
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6,619
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88.4
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985.7
1Result obtained at 31.12.2017 r
Subsidiaries and Associates of Santander Bank Polska S.A.
1) On 7 September 2018, pursuant to the resolution of the General Meeting of Shareholders of Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. (BZ WBK S.A.) of 16 May 2018, BZ WBK S.A. changed its name to Santander Bank Polska S.A. All the Bank’s subsidiaries and associates were renamed accordingly.
2) As of 1 October 2016, Santander Consumer Bank S.A. (SCB S.A.) holds 50% of shares in PSA Finance Polska sp. z o.o. and indirectly 50% of shares in PSA Consumer Finance Polska sp. z o.o. Both companies are controlled by SCB S.A. as they meet the conditions set out in IFRS 10.7.
3) SC Poland Consumer 15-1 and S.C. Poland Consumer 16-1 are SPVs set up for the purpose of securitisation of part of SCB credit portfolio. Their shareholder is a legal person that has no ties with the Group. The companies are controlled by SCB as they meet the conditions set out in IFRS 10.7.
4) The co-owners of Santander Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych S.A. (Santander TFI S.A.) i.e. Santader Bank Polska S.A. and Banco Santander S.A. are members of the Santander Group and hold equal 50% stakes in the company’s share capital. Santander Bank Polska S.A. exercises control over Santander TFI S.A..