), and the name was changed from Bankia Bank to Santander Consumer Bank.

The name was changed to Santander Consumer Bank.

A booming economy has brought in others including Apple, North Fork now Capital One, Park Avenue, Sovereign Bank formerly Independence Community now part of Santander, JP Morgan Chase, Berkshire, Liberty Pointe, Astoria, TD Bank formerly Commerce Bank, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh and Metropolitan National Bank, new banks opening in 2009 Valley National Bank and Bank of America.

The stadium's name may change again due to M & T Bank being in merger discussions with other banks, including Grupo Santander ( which owns Sovereign Bank ), Wells Fargo, and PNC Financial Services.

There are numerous banks and building societies, including Lloyds TSB, Santander, Barclays, HSBC, NatWest & Yorkshire Bank.

It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break-up of the original ABN AMRO by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander Group and Fortis.

In October 2007 the bank was acquired, in what was at that time the biggest bank takeover in history, by a consortium made up of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Fortis and Banco Santander, known as RFS Holdings B. V. Consequently, the bank was divided into three parts, each owned by one of the members of the consortium.

However, on April 18, another British bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS ) contacted ABN AMRO to propose a deal in which a consortium of banks, including RBS, Belgium's Fortis, and Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano ( now Banco Santander ) would jointly bid for ABN AMRO and thereafter break up the different divisions of the company between them.

The bank is a branch of " The Royal Bank of Scotland " ( having been formerly " Williams & Glyn's ") however it is one of the branches that is to be sold to " Santander " and so will be changing in the foreseeable future

Potential buyers for the bank included Virgin Money, National Australia Bank, NBNK, Santander, Blackstone, Tesco, TowerBrook, Yorkshire Building Society and Coventry Building Society.

ABN AMRO had owned the bank but in October 2007, a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland that also included Banco Santander and Belgium's Fortis, acquired ABN AMRO and proceeded to dismember it.

Most of the city's Banks are located up New Street including ; Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, Natwest, HSBC, Santander & many other Building Societies.

In the year 2006, BBVA outbid Banco Santander Central Hispano, Bank of America, and formed an alliance with China CITIC Bank, one of the biggest banks in China by acquiring a stake in the bank and in CITIC International Financial Holdings Limited ( CIFH ), China Citic Group ’ s main international arm.

The company was broken up after having critical difficulty financing its part of a joint acquisition of ABN AMRO ( as a member of a consortium which also included Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Banco Santander ).

The Universidad Industrial de Santander is an official institution which offers 95 degrees and a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses within the health sciences, humanities, sciences and engineering colleges.

The Valid offers its services to large companies and government institutions, its main customers are telecommunications companies Telefônica Brasil, Oi and Claro Brasil, banks as Itaú Unibanco, Banco do Brasil, Citibank, Bradesco, HSBC, Santander Brasil and Caixa Economica Federal, as well as the BM & F Bovespa and the Brazilian Department of Transit.

Additionally Roche's design for Santander Group in Madrid, Spain has offers is reputed to be the world's largest green roof over 1, 000, 000 square feet.

An exclusive tourist service operated by FEVE is a long line, the Transcantábrico, which runs along the entire length of Spain's north coast, and has connected the cities of San Sebastián, Bilbao, Santander, Oviedo and Ferrol to Leon since 1982.

Once a major port, freight transport has declined, but the port is still served by regular cross-Channel passenger ferries with Brittany Ferries offering a passenger and freight service to Cherbourg as well as a freight only route to Santander twice a week on the MV Cotentin.

Placed in the riverbank, in earlier times a Ferry service would cross between Santander and Antioquia, on the opposite side, where further oil fields are found.

The original founding members of the new service were: Abbey ( now Santander UK ), Alliance and Leicester ( now part of Santander UK ), Barclays, Citi, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks ( National Australia Group ), Co-operative Bank, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide Building Society, Northern Bank ( Danske Bank ), Northern Rock, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group ( including NatWest and Ulster Bank ).

Santander does now offer this service.

The areas that they occupied were the Departments of Santander, Norte de Santander, Boyacá and Cundinamarca, which were also the areas where the first farms were developed.

1831 ); was then in the United States, where he went to join his uncle Joseph, and in Colombia with Francisco de Paula Santander ( 1832 ).

Safarditas are found particularly in the northern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, the American Southwest i. e., New Mexico, Arizona, and South Texas ( formerly part of Nuevo Santander, Spain / Mexico ), the Caribbean, and South America and this also includes Crypto-Jews that were brought into exile during the 15th century inquisition that took refuge from Southeast Asia e. g., in Northern Samar, the Philippines, as well as, Crypto-Jews found in Belmonte, Portugal and in the former Portuguese colony of Goa, India, where they were subjected to the Goa Inquisition.

Upon returning to Spain, he took up residence in Santander where he financed his own work and began a regimen of study and investigation that he never abandoned.

He was born at Santander where he showed that he was an infant prodigy.

The river's tributaries also provided access to the Venezuelan and New Granadan Llanos to the west, especially those in Casanare, where refugees from Morillo's troops had organized themselves under Francisco de Paula Santander.

This cleared the way for Bolívar and Santander to invade New Granada, where, in Pantano de Vargas, the Spaniards were defeated in a battle in which the British Legion played a central role and its commander, Rooke, was killed in action.

The city preserves places where these historical events took place: the Historical Church of Cúcuta, the House of Santander, and the Park of the Great Colombia.

He went into exile in Colombia, where he worked in the Santander School in Sevilla, which was named the best school in Colombia.

Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola or Marcelino de Sautuola ( 1831, Santander, Cantabria – 1888 ) was a Spanish jurist and amateur archaeologist, who owned the land where the Altamira cave was found.

He faced a court case where he was charged with illegally using Indian labor in his textile mills and using the port of Santander to bring in English contraband.

In October 1821, after the Constitution of Cúcuta was proclaimed, Santander was elected by the newly gathered Congress as Vice President of Gran Colombia, in a heated election, where he overcame the other strong candidate for the post, the former leader of Cundinamarca, General Antonio Nariño, by a margin of 38 to 19 votes.

He owes his surname to a Spaniard great-grandfather Antonio, who sailed from Santander in the 1900s and settled in Maryport, Cumbria, where he set up a fish-and-chip shop.

From a young age, he was linked to the trade-union movement in Barrancabermeja, Santander, from where he had to emigrate when his personal security was threatened.

Odd as it might sound to many, at the age of 37, Santander recovered his status as a teen idol, at least in Mexico, where that soap opera became a classic of Mexican television, due in part to the following he generated among Mexican Teenaged girl.

In 1995, during her fifth and final year of college, her family signed her up for the Señorita Santander (" Miss Santander ") beauty contest, where she was the runner-up.

The main municipal port facility is in Poblacion, where a fast ferry runs every hour to Santander on the tip of Cebu island.

He was educated at the Institute Cántabro of Santander, whence he went in 1852 to Madrid, where he studied with the vague purpose of entering the artillery corps.

* Comunera Province, a province in Santander Department where the Revolt of the Comuneros in New Granada took place.

Unforeseen delays and a fear of becoming embayed in the Bay of Biscay led Drake to bypass Santander, where most of this refitting was underway, and attack Corunna in Galicia instead.