Latin America’s best bank transformation 2017: Santander Brasil

Awards for Excellence 2017

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The best bank transformation of the year award goes to Santander Brasil. 

Mario Leao, head of the bank’s investment banking division, dates the start of the bank’s turnaround to September 2015 – the date when Sergio Rial became CEO. And 2016 saw the results of changes in leadership, risk management and digital innovation. 

The bank is on a charge. Between the first quarters of 2016 and 2017, the bank increased its customers by half-a-million to 3.7