Warning of ‘marked slowdown’ in mortgage lending from Santander UK chief as bank’s profit creeps up two per cent February 2, 2023 Santander UK’s net mortgage lending climbed higher in 2022, helping to boost profits, but its CEO warned that the bank would have to navigate “a marked slowdown” in mortgage lending in 2023. The Spanish bank’s net mortgage lending increased to £9.8bn from £7.5bn last year helping pretax profit creep up two per cent. CEO Mark [...]
Santander launches buy-now pay-later offering that could be a ‘game changer’ for cash-strapped corporates January 9, 2023 Santander has announced a push into the business-to-business (B2B) buy-now pay-later market today as it looks to tap into demand from a wave of corporate firms grappling with soaring prices.
Santander says graduates no longer need a a 2:1 or higher to work at the bank January 3, 2023 Santander said that changing the minimum qualification requirements of its graduate scheme would open the programme up to 64,000 more candidates each year. Recent graduates will no longer need an upper second or first-class degree from their university to apply for the high street bank’s post-university training scheme. The Spanish bank Santander’s decision echoes similar [...]
Santander slapped with £108m fine by FCA for anti-money laundering failures December 9, 2022 Santander has been fined more than £107m by the Financial Conduct Authority for anti-money laundering failures. The banking giant will have to pay £107,793,300 to the watchdog after it was found to have “serious and persistent gaps” stopping the scourge. FCA found that between 31 December 2012 and 18 October 2017, it didn’t properly oversee [...]
Surge in loan-loss reserves poison Santander profits July 28, 2022 Funds set aside to deal with an expected jump in loan defaults caused by borrowers’ being squeezed by a historic inflation surge has whacked Spanish bank Santander’s profits. The lender, which has a big presence in the UK, banked over €500m (£420m) in loan-loss reserves over the three months to June, up 25 per cent [...]
Santander hands out four per cent pay rises to help 11,000 workers manage cost-of-living crunch July 19, 2022 Santander today pledged to give four per cent pay rises to all 11,000 of its workers on salaries of less than £35,000 a year. The bank said the pay rises, which will be handed out to around 60 per cent of Santander’s entire workforce, are aimed helping its staff deal with the UK’s cost-of-living crisis. [...]
‘Worrying rise’ in crypto scams claiming to be celebrity endorsed, Santander says June 28, 2022 Cryptocurrency scams falsely claiming to be endorsed by celebrities are surging, Santander warned. “We’re seeing a worrying rise in ‘celebrity-endorsed’ cryptocurrency scams, where familiar faces are being misused on social media in order to con people out of often life-changing sums of money,” said Chris Ainsley, the bank’s head of fraud risk management in the UK. He warned [...]
Millions of banking app users exposed to security flaw: HSBC, NatWest, Monzo, Santander, Starling and Virgin Money customers all affected January 12, 2022 Millions of Brits who use online banking services are exposed to some worrying fraud risks, industry experts warned today. Following an investigation by security experts 6point6, testing the online and mobile app security of 15 major current account providers on a range of criteria, including encryption and protection, login, and account management and navigation, consumer [...]
Santander lures Barclays veteran Jane Galvin away from HSBC in banking war for top talent January 10, 2022 Santander UK announced this morning the appointment of Jane Galvin as Head of Corporate Clients within its Corporate and Commercial Banking (CCB) division. Galvin, a City heavyweight who made a name for herself during three decades at Barclays, will start at the beginning of February and will report directly to CCB head Tim Hinton. She [...]
Former Yorkshire Building Society chief Mike Regnier becomes Santander UK’s new CEO November 29, 2021 Santander UK announced this morning that Mike Regnier will become the bank’s new chief executive officer.. Regnier joins Santander from Yorkshire Building Society, where he has been CEO since 2017 and prior to that Chief Commercial and Chief Customer Officer. Santander said in a statement he has over 25 years’ financial services and retail experience [...]