Grupo Santander has a number of different arms – in Brazil, Chile, the UK and Portugal, as well as at home in Spain in the shape of Banesto – but while all funding is executed locally, there is systematic oversight at group headquarters outside Madrid.
“We coordinate all transactions, all the analysis, at headquarters,” says José Antonio Soler, head of funding for Grupo Santander. “Every year all the banks make a liquidity plan and a funding plan, and we analyse and approve that plan in order to coordinate all the funding.”
He continues: “We coordinate the implementation of their plans. The execution of the transaction is local, although we avoid tapping the market at the same time in the same product. We coordinate, we have formal conference calls and committees regularly in order to discuss what we are...
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