Banco Santander Puerto Rico, through its Santander Universidades global division, is banking on the creativity and entrepreneurial ingenuity of students from the island’s academic institutions for the third edition of the Santander Award for Business Innovation.
Banco Santander, armed with the support from the government and members of the academic community, announced Tuesday the launching of the second edition of its U-Work internship program, which this year will benefit 354 college juniors and seniors with real-world work experience.
While many Puerto Rico residents will kick off a four-day weekend today, commercial banks will be observing the July 25th Constitution Day celebration and Saturday’s José Celso Barbosa holiday with special hours.
Puerto Rico’s major banks announced their schedules for today’s Luis Muñoz Rivera holiday, some offering shorter service hours.
Santander Puerto Rico unveiled Tuesday its newest offer, dubbed Santander Select, through which it has vowed to extend a personalized experience and preferential access to the bank’s best services.
Saying the bank is “here to grow,” Santander Puerto Rico President Román Blanco-Reinosa outlined the financial institution’s strategy through 2015 — a plan that calls for achieving a net profit of $100 million in three years by focusing on five core business areas. When that vision is translated into numbers, it adds up to 100x35.
Fitch Ratings announced Thursday it had completed its review of four rated Puerto Rican Banks — Doral Financial Corp., First BanCorp, Popular Inc. and Santander Bancorp — adjusting and affirming its ratings and outlook for each financial institution.
Banco Santander Puerto Rico recently awarded $9.3 million in financing for the development of the San Germán Surf and Fun Waterpark planned for that municipality.
The Banker magazine has named Santander "Bank of the Year" in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Argentina and Puerto Rico, the financial institution announced Thursday.
JetBlue Airways, Puerto Rico’s largest carrier, announced Thursday plans to add two routes from San Juan: Punta Cana and Santiago, in the Dominican Republic, starting in May 2013. The routes will fill a gap left by American Eagle when it scaled back operations out of the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport.
As part of its pursuit of creating such professional opportunities, Banco Santander Puerto Rico, through its Santander Universities Global Division, announced Thursday the start of its “U-Work” internship program on the island.
Javier Hidalgo-Blázquez, President and CEO of Santander BanCorp and Santander Puerto Rico, resigned to his positions to assume new responsibilities within the bank’s parent company, Grupo Santander in Spain. However, bank officials did not say Thursday when his resignation will take effect.
Entrepreneurial college students are the kind of people Banco Santander wants to support not only in Puerto Rico, but wherever it does business worldwide.
Banco Santander Puerto Rico announced Monday the availability of its new mobile banking service to offer a host of features to smartphones customers with Internet access.
Renewable energy site developers are hopeful that the process of establishing wind and solar farms in Puerto Rico will get easier as more projects in the pipeline are approved.
A Dow Jones/Factiva content provider since 2014
Subscribe to our Dollars & Sense podcast!
NIMB ON SOCIAL MEDIA