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Banco Santander S.A.
19 September 2023
Santander aligns retail & commercial and consumer operating
model to its strategy
-- Going forward all the bank's activities across all markets
will be consolidated under five global areas: Payments, Corporate
& Investment Banking, and Wealth Management & Insurance,
and the two new global businesses, Retail & Commercial, and
Digital Consumer Bank.
-- This will allow the bank to improve its customer service and
simplify its business further, while helping achieve the strategic
goals outlined at its Investor Day in February, which remain
unchanged.
-- These five areas will become the bank's primary reporting segments from January 2024.
Madrid, 18 September 2023 - PRESS RELEASE
Banco Santander is consolidating its retail & commercial and
consumer activities across all markets under two new global
businesses: Retail & Commercial and Digital Consumer Bank. The
changes align these businesses with Santander's current, global
model in Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth Management
& Insurance and Payments, helping the bank achieve the
strategic goals outlined at its Investor Day in February,
including: adding 40 million customers by 2025, increasing return
on tangible equity to 15-17%, and achieving double-digit average
annual growth in tangible net asset value per share plus dividend
per share through the cycle.
Following the changes, all of the bank's activities will be
aligned under five global business areas [1] :
- Retail & Commercial : a new business area which combines
all the bank's retail and business banking globally, to be led by
Daniel Barriuso.
- Digital Consumer Bank : all consumer finance activities
worldwide, to be led by José Luis de Mora.
- Payments : PagoNxt (led by Javier San Félix) and Global Cards
(led by Matías Sánchez).
- Corporate & Investment Banking : already a global business, led by José M. Linares.
- Wealth Management & Insurance : already a global business, led by Víctor Matarranz.
Santander's executive chair, Ana Botín , said: "Today we are
announcing a crucial step in aligning our operating model in retail
& commercial and consumer banking to our strategy. We know from
our progress since we first defined our strategy in 2015 that
leveraging our unique combination of global scale and local
leadership allows us to serve customers better, while delivering
profitable growth. We are confident this is the right thing for our
customers and will allow us to progress faster, delivering on all
targets set out at Investor Day this year, including double digit
average annual growth in tangible net asset value plus dividend per
share through the cycle."
In this new model, global heads will define the common business
and operating model, which will be based on global platforms;
country heads continue to be responsible for managing the business,
and regional heads will drive the implementation of the model and
convergence across the markets.
The group plans to align the way it reports its financial
results to this new model from January 2024, as it becomes
implemented, with the five global businesses becoming the new
primary segments for the group. To facilitate year-on-year
comparisons and analysis, the bank will publish information adapted
to the new segments ahead of 2023 full-year results announcement,
which will take place on 31 January 2024. The group will continue
to report all country and region-specific data, although they will
become secondary segments.
The group's financial targets outlined in February remain
unchanged, including achieving a return on tangible equity (RoTE)
of 15-17% in 2023-2025 and an efficiency ratio of c.42% by 2025;
maintaining a fully-loaded CET1 above 12%; delivering double-digit
average annual growth in tangible net asset value (TNAV) per share
plus dividend per share through the cycle. The bank remains on
track to meet its 2023 targets, including double-digit revenue
growth; RoTE above 15%; cost-to-income ratio of 44-45%;
fully-loaded CET1 above 12%, and cost of risk below 1.2%.
Bios of global heads(1)
Daniel Barriuso (Retail & Commercial) is s enior e xecutive
v ice p resident , g lobal h ead of Retail & Commercial Banking
and g roup c hief t ransformation o fficer at Banco Santander.
Before that, he was c hief i nformation s ecurity o fficer (CISO)
and h ead of Cyber & Banking Fraud Prevention for nearly seven
years at the bank. Daniel has over 29 years' experience across b
anking, e nergy and t ech industries. Prior to joining Santander ,
he held various executive positions at BP, Credit Suisse and ABN
AMRO .
José Luis de Mora (Digital Consumer Bank) is senior executive
vice president, global head of Digital Consumer Bank and group head
of Corporate Development and Financial Planning at Banco Santander.
He joined the bank in 2003 and has taken part in the group's major
acquisitions of financial institutions in Europe and the Americas.
Before joining the group, Mr De Mora worked in London at Kleinwort
Benson and Merrill Lynch.
Javier San Félix (Payments - PagoNxt) is senior executive vice
president at Banco Santander and chief executive officer at
PagoNxt. Prior to that, Mr San Félix had been head of Global
Payment Services, deputy CEO for Santander UK and responsible for
the group's Retail and Commercial Banking division. Previously, he
was CEO of Banesto after joining Santander Consumer Finance in
2004. Before Santander, Javier was a senior partner of McKinsey
& Company.
Matías Sánchez (Payments - Global Cards) is senior executive
vice president and head of Global Cards at Banco Santander since
2022. Prior to that, Mr Sánchez was head of Retail Products Europe
and Spain, and spent over eight years in Chile as head of Retail
and Digital Banking after a first period as head of Middle Market.
Before, he had worked in Banesto for 15 years.
José M. Linares (Corporate & Investment Banking) is senior
executive vice president of Banco Santander and global head of
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB) since
2017. Prior to joining Santander, Mr Linares spent more than 17
years at J.P. Morgan in a number of senior roles in New York, Hong
Kong and London. His final position there, starting in 2011, was
head of Global Corporate Banking in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa (EMEA).
Víctor Matarranz (Wealth Management & Insurance) is senior
executive vice president and global head of Wealth Management &
Insurance at Banco Santander since 2017, leading Santander Private
Banking, Santander Asset Management and Santander Insurance
globally. Between 2014 and 2017, he was the head of Group Strategy
and of the Executive Chairman's Office and, prior to that, he was
the director of Strategy and chief of staff to the CEO in Santander
UK. Before joining Santander in early 2012, Mr Matarranz was a
partner at McKinsey & Company.
Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a leading commercial
bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain. It has a
meaningful presence in 10 core markets in the Europe, North America
and South America regions, and is one of the largest banks in the
world by market capitalization. Santander aims to be the best open
financial services platform providing services to individuals,
SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The
bank's purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a
simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more
responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support
this objective, including raising EUR220 billion in green financing
between 2019 and 2030. In the first half of 2023, Banco Santander
had EUR1.25 trillion in total funds, 164 million customers, 9,000
branches and 212,000 employees.
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