Press releases
Dec
04
2024

Advanced Alloy Services, South Yorkshire based supplier of high purity metals, revert and toll-process for the manufacture of high temperature superalloys, has received a total of £20m funding package from Santander Corporate and Commercial Banking.

Dec
03
2024

Santander UK has launched the Santander Personal Pension, a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP), designed to give customers more control over their pension as they save for retirement, with an advice service to follow in 2025.

Nov
30
2024

The scam: Criminals are increasingly targeting young adults with money mule schemes, using platforms like social media, online gaming, and fake job ads to recruit unsuspecting victims.

Nov
28
2024

Santander is urging sports fans to be cautious when shopping around for tickets this season, as data shows that fraudsters are setting their sights on them.

Nov
15
2024

Santander announced the winners of the Santander X UK Awards 2024 at a national final event held in Unity Place, the bank’s headquarters in Milton Keynes, on 14th November.  

Nov
13
2024

As the UK Government embarks on its largest housebuilding programme in over half a century —aiming to deliver 1.5 million homes in the next five years—new research from Santander UK shows almost three quarters (73%) of potential first-time buyers (FTB) would consider moving to New Towns.

Nov
11
2024

Over half (52%) of UK businesses are prioritising international trade as a key growth driver, according to the Santander Trade Barometer. This marks a 5% rise since Spring 2024 and more than double the 21% recorded by Santander in 2021, reflecting an ongoing trend seen since the Barometer’s inception in 2017. 

Nov
07
2024

Santander UK has today announced changes to its mortgage and base rate linked savings products following the Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to decrease the Bank of England base rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.75%. 

Nov
04
2024

From Monday 4 November, Santander UK customers can earn £150 when switching to an eligible current account. 

Nov
01
2024

Santander UK has today made reductions of up to 0.36% to all standard residential fixed rates across its purchase, remortgage, green mortgage, new build and buy-to-let ranges, with rates now starting from 3.85%.  

Oct
22
2024

UK businesses are confident about future growth but are calling for greater support from the government to help them trade and sell their products and services around the world, new figures from Santander reveal today ahead of the full launch of the Autumn edition of Santander’s Trade Barometer1.

Oct
21
2024

Santander UK today announces the appointment of David Oldfield as an Independent Non-Executive Director to the Boards of Santander UK plc and Santander UK Group Holdings plc, effective from 1st December 2024. 

Oct
17
2024

Independent blended Scotch whisky brand, Compass Box, has secured a £35m lending facility from Santander UK. The asset backed lending package will provide the whisky business with the finance to continue its upward growth trajectory.

Oct
14
2024

Santander has launched a new ISA transfer cashback offer allowing customers to earn up to £1,000 when they transfer their existing ISA - whether a cash ISA or stocks and shares ISA - into a Santander Stocks and Shares ISA, through the bank’s online Investment Hub and Financial Planning Service. 

Oct
11
2024

Santander’s Corporate & Commercial Banking division has launched its new marketing campaign with outdoor posters, press adverts and social media, focusing on the importance of “connections” in helping businesses achieve their growth ambitions. 

Oct
07
2024

Santander UK has urged government to focus their new National Plan for Skills on addressing the UK’s productivity dilemma and equipping British workers for a future, in which shifting attitudes to work, the rise of AI, and climate change will have a major impact on the workforce.

Oct
04
2024

Santander UK has today made reductions of up to 0.29% to selected fixed rates across its purchase, remortgage, green mortgage, and buy-to-let ranges, with rates now starting from 3.68%.  

Oct
02
2024

New data from Santander UK reveals a troubling rise in romance scams. Data from the bank shows more than £3.8 million was reported as stolen from customers in the last six months, an increase of 27% on the previous six-month period, affecting customers aged from 18 to 93 years old.

Sep
30
2024
  • One in five (21%) adults have been victims of fraudsters in the last three years, according to a landmark global report which surveyed 28,000 people across 15 countries.
  • More than 10 million people have been hit by fraud in the UK alone in the last three years – losing an average of over £900 each.
  • UK Government must lead the drive for a new international agreement to crackdown on criminal gangs behind tidal wave of fraud, according to the Social Market Foundation report commissioned by Santander UK.
Sep
26
2024

Santander has launched a range of new Fixed Rate ISA1 products, with a £50 retail voucher2 offer for customers transferring £10,000 or more from a non-Santander ISA.