The Spanish bank, Santander is creating 120 new jobs at its
customer services centre at St. Vincent Street, in the IFSD. The
new jobs are part of a recently announced expansion which sees a
total of 400 new posts created at Santander's customer service
centres in Glasgow, Liverpool and Leicester.
The company confirmed this latest expansion comes after three
years of continued, sustainable growth in its UK market
share. Now one of Britain's biggest retail banks with 25
million customers, Santander also confirmed the new jobs would be
filled by March 2011.
Welcoming the news on behalf of the IFSD partnership, Jim
Watson, Scottish Enterprise said, "This is clearly great news for
Glasgow and, following recent new job announcements from Barclays,
Odyssey and esure, is a very encouraging sign for the city's
financial services sector."
Santander first became a major force in UK retail banking when
it acquired Abbey in 2004. Subsequently, it bought Alliance &
Leicester and Bradford & Bingley and now employs over 21,000
people in a UK network of 1300 branches. In a move that underlines
its growth ambitions in the UK, Santander has also recently sealed
a deal to acquire over 300 retail branches from RBS.