Branch numbers of Banco Santander globally 2012-2020

The number of bank branches for the Banco Santander Group decreased with some fluctuation globally between 2012 and 2020. The Spanish bank employs approximately 191 thousand staff and has a customer base that grew by three millions between 2019 and 2020. As of the end of 2020, the number of Banco Santander branches in Spain fell by more than two thousand. Despite Spain still 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 2019, the French bank BNP Paribas operated in more than 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.

Bank branches continue to fall in Europe

With the rise in online banking, and the need from customers for physical stores lessening, it may come as no surprise that the number of bank branches in Europe in operation has fallen annually between 2007 and 2018.