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SANTANDER<br />

Banking behemoth<br />

Santander is undergoing<br />

a significant digital<br />

transformation in an<br />

evolving industry —<br />

Andy Pearson and<br />

David Hayes explain<br />

how this improves<br />

the lives of customers<br />

and communities<br />

200<br />

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art of the global Santander Group,<br />

Santander UK has become a<br />

mainstay of British banking, and is<br />

a familiar sight on the UK high street with over<br />

1,000 branches and 50 corporate business<br />

centres across the nation. Now, the finance<br />

giant is undergoing a significant digital<br />

transformation in order to improve the lives<br />

of its customers and their communities.<br />

Keen to explain this transformation and<br />

what it means to the bank were David Hayes,<br />

Chief Data Officer and Head of Data Services;<br />

and Andy Pearson, Managing Director of<br />

Santander UK Technology and Head of<br />

Digital Services. We caught up with the pair<br />

at Santander UK’s Milton Keynes office.<br />

Known throughout the UK as a ‘new town’<br />

built almost from scratch just 50 years ago,<br />

Milton Keynes has a reputation for cutting-<br />

DECEMBER <strong>2018</strong>

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