Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander

by Mauro F. Guillén, Adrian Tschoegl, Adrian E. Tschoegl

In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars--an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. Here, Mauro Guill n and Adrian Tschoegl tackle the question of how this once-sleepy, family-run provincial bank in a developing economy transformed itself into a financial-services group with more than sixty-six million customers on three...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691131252
• ISBN13: 9780691131252
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.1"