Santander

The main global routes are:

• Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) Summer Internship: an 8-week program spanning Global Banking, Global Markets and Global Transaction Banking, running June/July to August/September across offices in Europe, Asia and the US
• Retail Graduate Program: a 12-month global rotation focused on digital product
• Corporate & Investment Banking Graduate Program: a 12-month program across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the US

Beyond these, country-specific programs run in the US (including a 10-week corporate internship and a 2-year CIB analyst program), the UK, Spain, Brazil and Mexico, among others. Because a handful of schemes are recruited globally while many others are country-specific with their own timelines, the right entry point depends as much on where an applicant can legally work as on the function – two people both targeting "Santander" may be applying to entirely different programs, so it pays to pin down the specific country program early rather than the group banner.

Its early-career footprint is unusually broad: programs run across Europe, the US, Latin America – including the group's large operations in Brazil and Mexico – and the UK, reflecting its standing as one of the largest retail and commercial banks in the euro area and Latin America. Several tracks deliberately recruit from non-finance disciplines such as engineering, mathematics, computer science and humanities for data, technology and product roles. For an applicant without a finance background or a top degree classification, this widens which Santander programs are realistically in reach compared with banks that screen hard on subject or grades – so it can be worth one of a limited set of applications precisely where a stricter competitor would screen the same candidate out.