Banco Santander : Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - Group Strategy Update Presentation

Jose García Cantera

Helping people and businesses prosper

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   principles of our public subsidiaries in such geographies. Accordingly, the results of operations and trends shown for our geographic segments may differ materially from those of such subsidiaries.

   In addition to the financial information prepared under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"), this presentation includes certain alternative performance measures as defined in the Guidelines on Alternative Performance Measures issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority on 5 October 2015 (ESMA/2015/1415es) as well as Non-IFRS measures. The APMs and Non-IFRS Measures are performance measures that have been calculated using the financial information from the Santander Group but that are not defined or detailed in the applicable financial information framework and therefore have neither been audited nor are capable of being completely audited. These APMs and Non-IFRS Measures are been used to allow for a better understanding of the financial performance of the Santander Group but should be considered only as additional information and in no case as a replacement of the financial information prepared under IFRS. Moreover, the way the Santander Group defines and calculates these APMs and Non-IFRS Measures may differ to the way these are calculated by other companies that use similar measures, and therefore they may not be comparable. For further details on the APMs and Non-IFRS Measures used, including its definition or a reconciliation between any applicable management indicators and the financial data presented in the consolidated financial statements prepared under IFRS, see Section 26 of the Documento de Registro de Acciones for Banco Santander filed with the CNMV on July 4, 2017 (available on the Web page of the CNMV - www.cnmv.es- and at Banco Santander - www.santander.com), Item 3A of the Form 20-F and "Presentation of Financial and Other Information" and "Selected Consolidated Financial Information" in the Form 6-K. For a discussion of the accounting principles used in translation of foreign currency-denominated assets and liabilities to euros, see note 2(a) to our consolidated financial statements on Form 20-F and to our consolidated financial statements available on the CNMV's website (www.cnmv.es) and on Banco Santander's website (www.santander.com).

   Contents

2. Disciplined capital management
3. Conservative funding and hedging management
4. Key takeaways

5. Our financial strategy combines five levers

   1 Business growth 2

   1 Committed to grow organically

   Leveraging our business model & improved commercial strategy

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   2 RoTE: 11.7%

   ► Top 3 vs. peers

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   RoRWA: 1.47% 3 CET1: 10.72% (meeting our targets consistently)

   5 Growing TNAV/share1 (from €4.01 Dec'14 to €4.15 Jun'17)

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   3 Higher total and cash dividend per share

   5 NPL: 3.55%1 and coverage ratio: 73%1 4 Prudent funding & liquidity management

6. Group ex-Popular as of 1H'17

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