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Santander and Elavon form Mexico merchant services alliance

Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and a leading global payments provider, has extended its relationship with Santander, one of the strongest and best capitalized banks in the world, through the establishment of a joint alliance in Mexico.

02 February 2010

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Santander says adios to Spanish ATM charges for UK customers

Following the announcement of the Zero Current Account in November 2009, Santander is today announcing another initiative aimed at rewarding loyalty amongst its existing customers. From next week, when Santander starts to rebrand its Abbey and Bradford & Bingley businesses in the UK, all of its adult bank account customers,(1) will get fee free cash withdrawals from all of Santander's 4,300 ATMs in Spain.

07 January 2010

Santander hits target of opening one million new UK current accounts in 2009

Santander has opened one million new current accounts in 2009, a great achievement for its UK current account brands, Abbey and Alliance & Leicester.

14 December 2009

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Sovereign Bank extends First Data merchant services agreement

First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, today announced the company has agreed with Sovereign Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco Santander, S.A., to extend their existing merchant services agreement.

03 December 2009

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Santander and Elavon form UK merchant services partnership

Elavon and Santander today announce the launch of a new alliance for merchant services in the UK. This alliance combines Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and a leading global payments provider, and Santander, one of the strongest and best capitalized banks in the world.

21 September 2009

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Santander selects Gemalto technology for Spanish student ID and payments card

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced it is providing Banco Santander, a major European financial institution, with new technology for its well established university identity card program in Spain.

03 March 2009

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Santander chooses IBM for Brazilian managed infrastructure project

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Santander in Brazil, through Produban - a company responsible for Santander's entire IT infrastructure - has established a five-year data center partnership with IBM.

22 January 2009

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Santander Consumer Bank deploys StreamServe enterprise document presentment system

StreamServe, a leading provider of Enterprise Document Presentment (EDP) solutions for business communications, today announced that Santander Consumer Bank of Norway has upgraded to StreamServe Persuasion and is expanding its use of StreamServe's solution throughout its offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

04 December 2008

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EuroCCP adds two participants

European Central Counterparty (EuroCCP) has approved two new firms as participants, increasing the number of approved clearing participants to 21.

24 November 2008

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Santander signs for Clear2Pay open payment framework

Clear2Pay, the international technology provider of next generation payment solutions for financial institutions has signed a contract with Santander for the implementation of the Open Payment Framework to enable group bank payments processing.

06 November 2008

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Banco Santander extends roll out of Entrust authentication system

A year ago, the Chilean subsidiary of Banco Santander faced a challenge familiar to many financial institutions: the protection of their online customer base via strong authentication.

13 November 2007

/regulation

Ullink reports implementations of MiFID best execution tool

Ullink, leading provider of low-latency connectivity and trading software solutions, today announced that eight major European financial institutions went live simultaneously and successfully on November 1st with its MiFID-compliant Best Execution solution: UL SMART.

12 November 2007