Santander Cards is part of the Global Santander Cards division, which operates in 11 countries and has a combined portfolio of over 16 million credit cards and 33 million debit cards around the globe.
Santander Cards began its UK operations issuing the Abbey branded credit card (now re-branded under the Santander umbrella) in June 2007 and in July of the same year completed the successful migration of over 200,000 accounts from MBNA, Abbey’s previous card provider. Santander Cards’ portfolio was further enhanced with the launch of ‘Rabbit’ in 2007 and the award winning Santander Zero card in 2008.
Since then, Santander Cards’ portfolio has increased significantly with the acquisition in 2009 of one of the UK’s largest providers of retailer credit, GE Money. For Santander, cards are a core business group-wide, owned and run in-house.
Having its own global credit card operation enables Santander in the UK to leverage the considerable experience and knowledge it has in delivering cards around the globe.
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The Santander Group includes Alliance & Leicester. We have more than 150 years’ experience in banking and more branches worldwide than any other international bank.
