Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0000891478-25-000111
Chunk: 132

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 6-K
Chunk 132
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 banking and commercial banking business (individuals, SMEs and corporates), except private banking clients and business originated in the consumer finance and the cards businesses. Detailed financial information is provided on Spain (Retail Spain), the UK (Retail UK), Mexico (Retail Mexico) and Brazil (Retail Brazil), which represent the majority of the total Retail business.

• Digital Consumer Bank (Consumer): comprises all business originated in the consumer finance companies, plus Openbank, Open Digital Services (ODS) and SBNA Consumer. Detailed financial information is provided on Europe (DCB Europe) and US (DCB US).

• Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB): this business, which includes Global Transactional Banking, Global Banking (Global Debt Finance and Corporate Finance) and Global Markets, offers products and services on a global scale to corporate and institutional customers, and collaborates with other global businesses to better serve our broad customer base.

• Wealth Management & Insurance (Wealth): includes the corporate unit of Private Banking and International Private Banking in Miami and Switzerland (Santander Private Banking), the asset management business (Santander Asset Management), the insurance business (Santander Insurance) and the unit that manages the investment platforms and stakes that complement Wealth's traditional business (the new vertical, Portfolio Investments).

• Payments: comprises the Group's digital payments solutions, providing global technology solutions for the banks and new customers in the open market. It is structured in two businesses: PagoNxt (Getnet, Ebury and PagoNxt Payments) and Cards (cards platform and business in the countries where Group operates).

In accordance with the information used by the Group's executive committee for decision making, following is a distribution of the gross margin by business segment accompanying consolidated income statements for the six-month periods ended 30 June 2025 and 2024.

In addition to these operating units, which report by businesses and geographic area, Grupo Santander continues to maintain the area of Corporate Centre, that includes the centralized activities relating to equity stakes in financial companies, financial management of the structural exchange rate position, assumed within the sphere of Grupo Santander's assets and liabilities committee, as well as management of liquidity and of shareholders' equity via issuances.

This financial information ('underlying basis') is computed by adjusting reported results for the effects of certain gains and losses (e.g.: capital gains, write-downs, etc.). These gains and losses are items that management and investors ordinarily identify and consider separately to understand better the underlying trends in the business.

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