FinTech Magazine - May 2021 | Page 47

SANTANDER UK

Santander UK

harnesses the power of technology partners to drive their digital transformation – allowing them to focus on banking

Bank of Choice Santander UK has a simple aim : to simplify and digitise the business for improved efficiency and returns for its people and businesses .

During the past five years the bank has turned to technology partners to achieve this goal in its corporate and commercial business in the UK – leaving them to focus on what they do best – the customer experience of banking .
Driving the digital transformation at Santander UK is Jonathan Holman , Head of Digital – Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking , who is taking relationship management to the next level for their banking customers as they look to the future following the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic .
“ We are creating a new architecture that allows us to move much faster ,” said Holman . “ We ' re buying into the roadmaps of our partners – they ' re improving the technology that enables us to improve our business . We haven ' t sought to be a technology company , we ' ve let tech companies be great tech companies and we are concentrating on being a great bank ,” he said .
Santander UK ’ s corporate and commercial banking teams offer financial services products to corporates and SMEs from £ 250k to £ 500 million turnover .
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