Banco Santander has seen the growth of its total assets more than quadruple between 2001 and 2023. During this period, total assets grew from 358 billion euros in 2001 to nearly 1.8 trillion euros in 2023. During the same period, attributable profit to the bank more than tripled.
Employees and branches
The number of bank branches for the Banco Santander Group fluctuated globally between 2012 and 2020. The Spanish bank employs 206 thousand staff and has a customer base that grew by seven millions between 2021 and 2022. As of the end of 2022, there were almost three thousand Banco Santander branches in Spain. Despite Spain having the largest number of Santander branches in Europe, the UK boasted having more customers, second only to Brazil on a global scale.
Santander focuses its operations
Compared to other leading European banks, the Banco Santander Group operates in far less countries globally. In 2020, the French bank BNP Paribas operated in almost seven times as many countries worldwide than Banco Santander. In fact, the Spanish bank operates in less countries than any of the other top ten leading European banks.
Total assets of Banco Santander from 2001 to 2023
(in billion euros)
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