Press releases

Santander customers who feel they need help with their day-to-day banking and spending, can now benefit from the bank’s new Carers Card Account.

The Barn Somerset, a destination beauty salon, has successfully used a £65,000 Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan (CBILS) to diversify its services and move online, generating £55,000 of sales in just four months during the first national lockdown. 

JR Gilbert Engineering, the precision engineering company based in South Wales, has secured a £650,000 invoice finance facility from Santander UK to support its next phase of growth.

Santander UK plc today announced the appointment of Paul Horlock as its new Chief Payments Officer.
 

New research from Santander UK has found that just over half (51%) of Brits say that, as a nation, we are too polite to take full advantage of savings and discounts. And half (52%) admit they are not a bargain-hunter or savvy shopper.

Santander UK has today been ranked as one of the Top 75 employers in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2020, demonstrating its commitment to social mobility in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Condition Monitoring Group (CMG), a Devon-based manufacturer that specialises in vibration detection equipment for high-tech assets, has secured a seven-figure Growth Capital facility to acquire a SEMIA SA - a French manufacturer operating in the same arena.

NAS Corporation, a specialist aviation firm based in Salisbury, has secured a six-figure CBILS loan from Santander UK to help the business through the challenges presented by COVID-19. 

Santander UK and Personetics, the leading global provider of data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions and a Mouro Capital portfolio company (the successor fund of Santander InnoVentures, which has recently spun out of Santander), have launched a new digital solution called ‘My Money Manager’. 

Cambridgeshire based Rose Produce, an importer, exporter and distributor of fresh produce, has secured a £500,000 Invoice finance facility after flourishing through Covid-19.

Distinction Group is one of the largest family-run contract furniture manufacturers in the UK and has been fitting out hotels, offices and residential developments nationally and internationally for 30 years. In 2019, it moved its banking to Santander and was making investments in the long-term future of the business. 

Hunters Lodge, a boarding kennels and cattery based in Newport Pagnell, secured a £200k CBILS loan from Santander UK to support the business through the challenges brought about by coronavirus.  

• New home insurance quote process from Santander takes less than three minutes to get a quote online
• Simplifying and automating the process reduces the risk of claims being declined
• The move is the first initiative delivered as part of Santander and Aviva’s new strategic partnership announced in March 2020

New research from Santander UK reveals that ongoing concerns around coronavirus have taken their toll on UK business owners, with a third (33%) stating that working through Covid-19 has adversely affected their mental health.

Santander, through Santander Universities, is coordinating a £1million investment into a ground-breaking higher education employability programme that will unlock the potential of hundreds of autistic students and boost the neurodiversity of the nation’s workforce.

Plymouth City Council has secured an interest rate swap agreement with Santander UK locking into historically low interest rates, reducing the risk that future rate rises could impact on its capital expenditure plans.

Almost three-fifths (59%) of UK businesses are confident that they will see growth in the next three years, despite the difficulties they are experiencing due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest Santander Trade Barometer published today1. The data ranks business confidence higher now than this time last year. 

Two top emerging entrepreneurs, and potential business success stories of tomorrow, have been unveiled at the tenth annual Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards 2020, a prestigious UK-wide entrepreneurial business pitching competition for students and recent graduates.

Launching ahead of National Poetry Day on 1 October, ‘Santander’s Scam Sonnets’ aim to raise awareness of investment fraud - which is when a fraudster offers a fake but convincing opportunity to make a profit by handing over a sum of money.

While post-lockdown has seen a boom in property sales, new analysis by Santander UK has revealed that UK homeowners are also looking to improve their homes, as they submitted 61,682 planning applications in the 13 weeks of lockdown.