Banco Santander S A : Analyst presentations - 3rd Quarter 2016 results

26 October 2016

Earnings Presentation

January - September 2016

Banco Santander, S.A. ("Santander") cautions that this presentation contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are found in various places throughout this presentation and include, without limitation, statements concerning our future business development and economic performance. While these forward-looking statements represent our judgment and future expectations concerning the development of our business, a number of risks, uncertainties and other important factors could cause actual developments and results to differ materially from our expectations. These factors include, but are not limited to: (1) general market, macro-economic, governmental and regulatory trends; (2) movements in local and international securities markets, currency exchange rates and interest rates; (3) competitive pressures; (4) technological developments; and (5) changes in the financial position or credit worthiness of our customers, obligors and counterparties. The risk factors that we have indicated in our past and future filings and reports, including those with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America (the "SEC") could adversely affect our business and financial performance. Other unknown or unpredictable factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward- looking statements.

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The information contained in this presentation is subject to, and must be read in conjunction with, all other publicly available information, including, where relevant any fuller disclosure document published by Santander. Any person at any time acquiring securities must do so only on the basis of such person's own judgment as to the merits or the suitability of the securities for its purpose and only on such information as is contained in such public information having taken all such professional or other advice as it considers necessary or appropriate in the circumstances and not in reliance on the information contained in the presentation. In making this presentation available, Santander gives no advice and makes no recommendation to buy, sell or otherwise deal in shares in Santander or in any other securities or investments whatsoever.

Neither this presentation nor any of the information contained therein constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. No offering of securities shall be made in the United States except pursuant to registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or an exemption therefrom. Nothing contained in this presentation is intended to constitute an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity for the purposes of the prohibition on financial promotion in the U.K. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Note: Statements as to historical performance or financial accretion are not intended to mean that future performance, share price or future earnings (including earnings per share) for any period will necessarily match or exceed those of any prior year. Nothing in this presentation should be construed as a profit forecast.

The businesses included in each of our geographic segments and the accounting principles under which their results are presented here may differ from the included businesses and local applicable accounting principles of our public subsidiaries in such geographies. Accordingly, the results of operations and trends shown for our geographic segments my differ materially from those of such subsidiaries.

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Agenda

■ Group performance 9M'16

• Business areas 9M'16

• Conclusions

• Appendix

• Glossary

Attributable profit

Underlying profit*

• Attrib. profit hit by one-offs in 9M'15 and 9M'16. Underlying profit growth
• Commercial revenues up y-o-y

  NII

  +2.2%

  (currency-neutral)

  Fee income +8.0%

• Enhanced balance sheet quality

  NPL ratio

  4.15% and lower cost of credit

  Cost of credit 1.19%

• Capital increase consistent with high RoTE

FL CET1

Underlying

RoTE 11.2%

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(*) Excluding one-off items and contribution to the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) due to change in the scheduled contribution dates. % change on a currency-neutral basis