About Us
Santander Consumer Finance is a leading consumer finance company present in 17 countries worldwide, from mature to emerging markets: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia ,the Slovak Republic, Spain ,Sweden ,UK and USA. .
We are part of Santander, one of the largest financial groups in the world. Santander Consumer started as a stand alone division in 2001.
More than 8,000 professionals provide the best consumer finance products and services to 12 million customers and more than 130,000 point of sale partners.
We offer a wide range of consumer finance solutions mainly thorough point-of-sales, where we have developed a unique expertise, and direct-to-consumer channels such as branches, internet and telemarketing platforms.
Our current size, presence in different countries and diversified portfolio provides us with competitive advantages:
- Pan-European and American scale with a strong and solid platform for expanding business
- Efficient distribution network, allowing transformation of indirect customers into direct customers
- Strong credit procedures, efficient recovery process and strong parent company rating (i.e.: low cost of funding)
- Diversified portfolio of products and geographically