International Desk

Capabilities in Portugal

Bank Accounts

• Resident accounts (EUR, AUD, CAD, DKK, SEK, NOK, JPY, NZD, ZAR, CHF, GBP, USD, PLN, MXN).
• Non-Resident Accounts (EUR, AUD, CAD, DKK, SEK, NOK, JPY, NZD, ZAR, CHF, GBP, USD, PLN, MXN).

Cash Management

• Collection:
  • Electronic collection
  • Direct debit
  • Checks
  • Checks payable abroad
  • Branches collections
  • POS
  • Home Deposit (The Bank provides equipment that allows corporate to make deposits at their premises into their account in our bank; Centralized management of pick up services)
  • ATM Payments
• Payment:
  • Debit and Credit cards and checks
  • Confirming: suppliers are allowed to advance payments
  • Interactive payments: through internet
  • Payrolls: salary payments.
  • Tax payments
• Cash Pooling: National and International
• Domestic and International Tansfers.

Electronic Banking

• Functionalities:
  • Account statements and movements
  • Consolidated position with the Bank (deposits, accounts, investments, loans, treasury operations)
  • Collection
  • Payments (SEPA compliant)
  • Factoring & Confirming
  • Status of database uploads and of payments remittances
  • Multilingual: Portuguese, Spanish and English
• Transfers:
  • Domestic
  • Payments: suppliers or third parties, payrolls, taxes.

Treasury

• Liquidity:
  • Time deposits
• Foreign exchange
• Hedge: interest rate swaps, currency swaps, cross-currency swaps, forwards.

Global Cash-Management Solutions

• CIS – Corporate Information Service – developed to improve the visibility and control of balances and movements over accounts held in our subsidiaries or in other financial institutions;
• Santander Global Payments – allow the centralization of payments through a regional channel, either Swiftnet / Host to Host. These payment orders would to be processed at the Santander Global Payment, and subsequently executed locally in each country.

Credit Markets

• Structured Finance:
  • Project Finance
  • Acquisition Finance
• Debt Capital Markets
• Asset Capital Structures
• Securitizations
• Syndicated Loans

Corporate Finance

• Mergers & Acquisitions advisory:
  • Divestitures
  • Acquisitions
  • Mergers
  • Privatizations
  • Public tender offers
  • Fairness Opinions
  • Valuations
  • Leveraged Buy-Outs
  • Management Buy-Outs
• Equity Capital Markets:
  • Initial Public Offerings
  • Secondary Public Offerings
  • Private Placements
  • Spin-Offs
  • Block-Trades
  • Accelerated Book-Buildings
  • Convertible Bonds
• Corporate Equity Derivatives.