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SBS
April 29, 2018
Ana Botin, the influential head of Santander, one of Spain's biggest banks, tweeted that the ruling was "a step back for women's security" while former judge Manuela Carmena, now Madrid mayor, said it "does not meet women's demand for justice." The men, aged 27 to 29, had been accused of raping theÃâà...
The Independent
April 29, 2018
I can understand why the bank wanted to keep the brand name, but it is not what it says on the tin. If you bank with Santander you know it is a Spanish bank. But TSB now has nothing to do with its origins; it is just another foreign-owned commercial bank. Second, we have probably been too open anÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 29, 2018
Ana Botin, the influential head of Santander, one of Spain's biggest banks, tweeted that the ruling was “a step back for women's security” while former judge Manuela Carmena, now Madrid mayor, said it “does not meet women's demand for justice”. The men, aged 27 to 29, had been accused of raping theÃâà...
HeraldScotland
April 27, 2018
“By our estimation, 250 Scottish bank branches have closed or have been scheduled to close in the last two years alone. That's 250 holes on Scottish high streets – and thousands of cash-based businesses facing disruption. At the very least, we want to see the banks working much harder to provideÃâà...
The Daily Hodl
April 23, 2018
Spanish banking giant Santander says it plans to expand its use of Ripple's xCurrent technology to a huge pool of potential customers. ... The full interview depicts a significant shift in the way banks do business and shows Santander recognizes what lies ahead, and how the bank is positioning itself as aÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 21, 2018
REVENUE STREAMS: Net interest income and fee income are likely to have been under pressure at Spanish banks in the first quarter of the year due to seasonal factors, Deutsche Bank says. UBS, which sees a 0.3% decline in revenue for Santander in the quarter, expects net interest income and feeÃâà...
Payment Week
April 19, 2018
Remember when we talked about how Ripple was likely the future of cryptocurrency because of bank connections like Santander? ... Better yet, reports note that Santander customers in Brazil, Poland and Spain can all use the xCurrent system as a means to make cross-border payments, a move which willÃâà...
PYMNTS.com
April 18, 2018
This week's Blockchain Tracker explores blockchain's position as both an opportunity and a threat to traditional banks. Opportunity. The biggest blockchain story of the week may be Banco Santander's launch of a cross-border payments solution based on Ripple technology. Retail customers of the Spanish bank in Spain,Ãâà...
Investopedia (blog)
April 17, 2018
Ripple has launched an app with Banco Santander, Spain's largest bank, to enable cheap and quick international currency transfers. The app is called One Pay FX and uses Ripple's blockchain technology in order to enable transfers between currencies in Europe and the United States. “One Pay FX usesÃâà...
Euromoney magazine
April 17, 2018
Pimco and Anchorage subpoena the Spanish bank for information to support their case in the EU General Court and criminal proceedings in Madrid ... in Spain that Santander was poised to make a substantial bid for Popular but subsequently reduced its offer to €1 after a run on the bank in early JuneÃâà...
bankinnovation.net
April 17, 2018
Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital arm of Spanish bank Santander Group, made an undisclosed investment in Brazilian fintech Creditas. The investment in Creditas, a digital online lending platform, marks Santander's first venture into the Brazilian fintech landscape. While terms of theÃâà...
Business Insider
April 16, 2018
Spanish bank Banco Santander has launched "Santander One Pay FX," a new international transfer service using blockchain-based technology. ... Fintechs like UK-based TransferWise have been focusing on making international transfers more transparent and cheaper than incumbent banks, which are known for oftenÃâà...
Quartz
April 12, 2018
Blockchain boosters rejoice: A major bank is using the distributed-ledger technology that makes bitcoin possible for international payments of fiat currency. Santander, which had been testing it internally among its staff, launched the service today, making the Spanish banking giant among the few majorÃâà...
PYMNTS.com
March 27, 2018
Santander, the Spanish bank, is gearing up to roll out an international money transfer app thanks to a partnership with blockchain FinTech startup Ripple. ... of January, Santander Chief Executive Ana Botin mentioned the upcoming launch of the new payment app, announcing then that it would be rolled out in Spain, Brazil,Ãâà...
MarketWatch
March 26, 2018
Banco Santander SA's SAN Banco Popular will sell its 49% stake in WiZink Bank to Varde Partners Inc., Santander said on Monday. Santander also said that it reached an agreement with Varde to recover ownership of Popular's credit and debit card business in Spain and Portugal that was transferred toÃâà...
Cointelegraph
March 25, 2018
Banking group Santander will be partnering with Ripple to release an international money transfer app using Ripple's Blockchain xCurrent and RippleNet ... “This spring, if not [sic] one beats us to it, we will be the first large retail bank to carry out cross-border payments at scale with Blockchain technology.”.
American Banker
March 24, 2018
But they don't have the same fear about Amazon's interest in offering bank products, partly because the plan is to do so through a partnership with a large bank ... For years Spanish banks like Santander have hired attractive younger women as hostesses to add elegance and glamour to their public events.
The42
March 19, 2018
I know it sounds crazy now but I'd never heard of Santander. It may have been a bank in Spain but it wasn't a bank everywhere else. I had to look at a map to see where Santander was – that's being honest. But I couldn't have gone to a nicer city. It's a fabulous place and I really got to enjoy my time there.
The Oracle Examiner
March 19, 2018
Banco Santander SA is the biggest bank in Spain and the biggest international bank in Latin America as well. The Bank concentrates its activities in Andalucia, Castilla-Leon, Catalonia, Madrid, Valencia and Cantabria. The Bank provides banking services for individuals and companies, leasing, factoring,Ãâà...
Law360
March 7, 2018
Led by Mexican billionaire Antonio Del Valle Ruiz, the 55 investors asked the court for an order authorizing them to obtain discovery from the New York offices of Spanish bank Banco Santander SA and its affiliates, saying the information is needed to shore up an arbitration claim they intend to file againstÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 1, 2018
Santander, for example, headquartered in Spain, is one of the largest banks in the world. But its U.S. bank has around $74 billion in assets. In questioning with committee chairman and bill author Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, though, Powell said the Fed would oversee those foreign megabanks based on theirÃâà...
The Economist
February 22, 2018
In the 1990s a “third way” emerged from provincial Spain; creating a global retail bank with a deep presence in many countries, allowing true ... has constructed a “synthetic twin” of the bank, based on the combined performance of the local banks in its markets, weighted by Santander's geographic mix.
Coinspeaker
February 5, 2018
This will make the Spanish banking group Banco Santander—“the first UK bank to introduce Blockchain technology which facilitates international payments, ... The bank told analysts that “We expect to be one of the first global banks to roll out distributed ledger technology based payments for individuals.”.
CoinDesk
February 2, 2018
... with Santander Group announcing a mobile app powered by the company's distributed ledger. The bank had been piloting the app for 18 months with its employees, integrating Apple Pay for payments between Ãâã10 and Ãâã10,000 ($14 and $14,000), according to Finextra. The app will be rolled out in SpainÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
Banco Santander opened Spain's bank reporting season on Tuesday with a 10 percent rise in first-quarter net profit from a year earlier, beating analysts' forecasts and helped by strong business in its largest market Brazil. Santander, the euro zone's biggest bank by market value, reported net profit of 2.05Ãâà...
The Times
December 31, 1999
The British arm of Spain's largest bank has reported a sharp drop in profits after writing off its exposure to Carillion, the failed UK construction company. The profitability of its new mortgage lending also fell. Santander UK said that its pre-tax profits for the first quarter were down 21 per cent year on year atÃâà...
WPRI 12 Eyewitness News
December 31, 1999
The merged HarborOne-Coastway will rank 12th among New England community banks by assets, with 65 locations across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New ... The next eight are Washington Trust, based in Westerly; Santander Bank of Spain; Bank Rhode Island, purchased in 2012 by Brookline Bank ofÃâà...
KOAT Albuquerque
December 31, 1999
The American operations of big foreign banks such as Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Banco Santander won't get the reprieve they wanted. ... Senator Sherrod Brown, the top Democrat on the banking panel, has repeatedly criticized the bill for providing relief to Spain's Santander, which repossessedÃâà...
CNNMoney
December 31, 1999
The American operations of big foreign banks such as Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Banco Santander won't get the reprieve they were hoping for. ... Senator Sherrod Brown, the top Democrat on the banking panel, has repeatedly criticized the bill for providing relief to Spain's Santander, whichÃâà...
Law360
December 31, 1999
Law360 (April 13, 2018, 4:47 PM EDT) -- Banco Santander SA urged a New York federal court on Thursday to turn away a group of Mexican former shareholders ... the court last month to allow them to obtain discovery from the New York offices of Spanish bank Banco Santander SA and its affiliates, saying the information is.
RT
December 31, 1999
The capitalization of Banco Santander, which was ousted by Sberbank from the top place, was at €91.56 billion as of Monday afternoon. However, the Russian bank's reign was short-lived as, by the end of the trading day, Banco Santander's capitalization rose to €91.8 billion, pushing Sberbank back toÃâà...
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