Santander has received three global awards for the first time at the 2023 Euromoney Awards for Excellence: ‘World’s Best Bank for SMEs’; ‘World’s Best Bank for Financial Inclusion’ and ‘World’s Best Bank for the Emerging Markets’. 

For the SME award, the magazine highlighted how Santander is “mixing advisory with products to power growth alongside clients” and “embracing the opportunity for relationship-forging that is presented in the SME segment through both financial and non-financial support.” 

It is the third time in six years that Santander has been named the best bank in the world for SMEs and the third year in a row that the bank has been named ‘World's Best Bank for Financial Inclusion’. Santander has financially empowered more than 10 million people since 2019 and aims to provide access and finance to a further five million people by 2025. As part of these financial inclusion programs, Santander granted €950 million in microcredits in 2022, primarily in Brazil and Mexico.

The publication also highlighted Santander’s success in Latin America, naming it as the best bank in the region, and ‘Latin America's Best Bank for Wealth Management’. According to Euromoney, the bank “has the ability to operate locally with the depth of a domestic bank, while optimising the advantages of its global network”.