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Company announcement

Santander offers Uk customers AI-guided personal finance tips

Santander UK and Personetics, the leading global provider of data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions and a Mouro Capital portfolio company (the successor fund of Santander InnoVentures, which has recently spun out of Santander), have launched a new digital solution called ‘My Money Manager’.

04 November 2020

Company announcement

Santander halves the time taken to receive online home insurance quotes

Customers looking for a home insurance quote will now receive a price from Santander in less than half the time, as it introduces a new process asking significantly fewer questions.

27 October 2020

News/people

HSBC and Santander step up cost-cutting efforts

HSBC and Santander are to accelerate their cost-cutting efforts, leading to thousands more jobs losses, as a combination of Covid loan loss provisions and low interest rates lower profits.

27 October 2020

News/startups

Mexican digital bank Klar snags $15 million in funding

Santander's Mouro Capital has participated in a $15 million funding round for Mexican challenger bank Klar.

21 October 2020

Company announcement/retail

Santander commits to home working until at least January 2021

Calls for certainty over working arrangements for the coming months have been answered at Santander as the UK continues to grapple with local lockdowns and concern over future course of the coronavirus pandemic.

08 October 2020

Company announcement/security

Santander teams up with poets to turn financial crimes into rhymes

Launching ahead of National Poetry Day on 1 October, ‘Santander’s Scam Sonnets’ aim to raise awareness of investment fraud - which is when a fraudster offers a fake but convincing opportunity to make a profit by handing over a sum of money.

02 October 2020

Company announcement/retail

JCB and Santander renew partnership

In June 2019, JCB International Co. Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., and Banco Santander, through its subsidiary Santander España Merchant Services, partnered to support the growth of face-to-face transactions made by JCB cardmembers across Spain.

25 September 2020

Company announcement/retail

Santander Bank rolls out Roostify home lending platform

Santander Bank today announced that it is partnering with Roostify on its digital home lending platform to provide a more convenient way for customers to apply for the Bank's home lending services.

24 September 2020

Company announcement/payments

Santander pilots payment tracking service

Santander UK is piloting a new real-time international payment tracker service for its customers using the SWIFT GPI Service together with SWIFT universal payment confirmations later this year.

23 September 2020