Banco Santander, S.A. is a bank holding company. Santander operates principally in Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, other European countries, Latin America and the United States, offering a range of financial products. Santander is organized in three principal segments: Continental Europe, United Kingdom and Latin America. Continental Europe covers all retail banking business, wholesale banking and asset management and insurance conducted in Europe, with the exception of the United Kingdom. It also includes the units, such as the Santander Branch Network, Banco Espanol de Credito, S.A., Santander Consumer Finance and Portugal. United Kingdom includes retail and wholesale banking, asset management and insurance conducted by the various units and branches of the Bank in the United Kingdom. Latin America segment includes activities conducted via its subsidiary banks and other subsidiaries in Latin America.



Owner of On-line bank Cahoot, Abbey National, Alliance & Leicester, Bradford & Bingley.
Shares in issue (Aug '09) 1,853.22m
Market cap (Aug '09) €15,984m
Also listed XETRA:BSD2
4 Dividends paid Aug, Nov, Feb, May.
http://www.santander.com/

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Business Financial Newswire
"Banco Santander has sold a 10% stake in Attijariwafa Bank to the Moroccan SociNationale d'Investissement for Dirhams4,149.4m (367m)

The operation generates for Grupo Santander a capital gain of 223m, approximately, which will not be reflected in the profit of 2009.

Following the sale, Grupo Santander holds 4.55% of Attijariwafa Bank. "

4th Feb '10 "Banco Santander, S.A. hereby announces the payment of a fourth dividend for the 2009 financial year of a gross amount of 0.221826 per share, to be paid in cash from 1st May next. With the payment of this dividend (which if the proposal to be submitted to shareholders at the General Meeting is approved, will be the last), the payment per share corresponding to 2009 will be 0.60, the total amount to be paid to shareholders being 4,918.6 million, which is 2.2% more than the 4,812.3 million paid as dividends on the 2008 earnings. On Monday 3rd May the Bank's share will already trade ex-dividend."

Broker comment on figures out this morning:
"SUMMARY: All in all, no surprises with the bank concentrating the extra provisioning effort in credits (through higher generics) and property (now covered 30% plus MVC at 25 per share). The good numbers don't look like they were enough to dispel the macro concerns in Spain in the short-term. Don't think consensus will be changing much in their numbers and once the overall macro situation in Spain is clear SANTANDER will be one of the first stocks many will look to buy. I mean come on...they've got Lewis Hamilton building Lego bridges for them...they can do anything...they are SANTANDER"

Business Financial Newswire
"Banco Santander has launched a cash tender offer for the outstanding series 2 $1,500m guaranteed perpetual step-up subordinated notes issued by Santander Perpetual.

The notes are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Santander holds approximately $350m of the total $1,500m principal amount of the totes outstanding.

The tender offer - which was launched yesterday (17 February) - will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on 25 February unless extended.

Santander will pay holders $1,005 per $1,000 principal amount of notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the settlement date. "

StockMarketWire.com
"Banco Santander is to acquire Bank of America's 24.9% stake in Grupo Financiero Santander (Banco Santander Mexico) for $2,500m.

This will increase Santander's holding in Banco Santander Mexico to 99.9%.

It is estimated that the transaction will have a positive impact of 1.3% on Santander's earnings per share from year one and a ROI of 15% from year three, based on market consensus estimates of Banco Santander Mexico's earnings.

The estimated impact of the transaction on Santander's core capital is -31 basis points. The transaction is subject to regulatory authorisation and is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2010. "

Just sold half of my holding in these - a good weeks work :-)

StockMarketWire.com
"Banco Santander announced that it will pay a dividend on 1 August, 2010 of EUR 0.135234 per share on account of 2010 earnings "

MATERIAL FACT


Banco Santander announces that its affiliate Santander UK has submitted an offer
in the tender process of approximately 300 branches of Royal Bank Of Scotland
that is taking place in the United Kingdom. Currently, it is not possible to say
when the tender process will conclude.

These have now recovered almost 30% in a couple of weeks.

skinny where are they getting the funds from to buy RBS assets, surely they have huge bad debts in Spain after the property market collapse. We hope this doesn't end up as a larger Icelandic bank disaster, the new Bank of England bank regulator should be keeping a close eye on this one.

The Germans :-)

skinny well if the Germans are the source of their funding at least we won't have to pick up the tab if they go down the tube.

Very big in Central & South America which hasn't been badly affected by the recession.

Harry they certainly need some support outside Spain which threatens to be the centre of the next bank disaster in europe.

halifax - joking apart, have a look at these links.

http://www.santandershareholder.co.uk/company-information/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/santander-may-be-top-bank-in-eu-stress-tests-2010-06-18?reflink=MW_news_stmp

skinny are you suggesting Santander is too big to fail? Sorry we don't buy it they have expanded into the UK on the back of weak financial regulation and the BOE had better take care they don't end up with a massive problem now they are responsible for bank regulation.

halifax - I'm not suggesting anything - just pointing you to information! I took an interest in these when I opened an ISA with them in April and bought in early June. As posted above, I sold half last week and will probably sell the rest today.

Acquisition



TIDMBNC TIDMCGP

RNS Number : 2157O
Banco Santander S.A.
24 June 2010

MATERIAL FACT ANNOUNCEMENT



Grupo Santander ("Santander") announces that it has reached an agreement with
Citigroup Inc. ("Citi") to purchase $3.2 billion of CitiFinancial Auto's auto
loan portfolio. In addition, Santander and Citi have entered into an agreement
under which Santander will service a portfolio of $7.2 billion of auto loans
that will be retained by Citi.

Santander will purchase the $3.2 billion portion of the portfolio at a price
equal to 99% of the value of the gross receivables.

The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2010,
and is subject to regulatory approvals and usual closing conditions.

MATERIAL FACT


Banco Santander hereby announces that it has reached agreement with
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB Group) for the acquisition by its affiliate
Santander Consumer Bank AG of SEB's commercial banking business in Germany for
an amount of approximately 555 million euros. The acquisition will have an
impact of about 10 basis points on Santander's core capital ratio, which stood
at 8.8% at March 31, 2010.

Following the acquisition of SEB's commercial banking business in Germany, which
includes 173 branches and serves one million customers, the number of branches
of Santander Consumer Bank's network in Germany will be almost doubled.

It is anticipated that the transaction will be concluded in 2011, once the
appropriate regulatory approvals have been obtained.

Santander eyes 3bn UK autumn listing
"Santander is gearing up to list its UK operations...raising capital.People close to Santander said that if market conditions were...group would like to float 20 per cent of Santander UK."

1st Half results presentation



TIDMBNC

RNS Number : 0717Q
Banco Santander S.A.
28 July 2010


MATERIAL FACT


Banco Santander hereby advises that the presentation of the Grupo Santander 2010
2nd Quarter Results will take place tomorrow, Thursday 29th July 2010. For this
purpose, a webcast presentation to analysts will be held at 10:00 hours (Madrid
time), followed by a meeting with journalists at 12:00 hours.

Both events will take place at the Grupo Santander City in Boadilla del Monte
(Madrid). The presentation to analysts can be followed by anyone interested via
the Internet on the corporate website www.santander.com. Likewise, this
presentation to analysts will be made public prior to its commencement via its
notification to the CNMV and publication on the aforementioned corporate
website.