Santander Selects Alexander Mann Solutions for Next Generation RPO

Leading Retail Bank Chooses Alexander Mann Solutions to Handle UK Recruitment and Employer Branding

LONDON, October 25, 2010 - Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS), the provider of world-class talent and
resourcing capability, has today announced that it has been selected by
Santander, one of the world's most successful and well-known banks, to
provide a full Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) solution across the
company's UK central specialist and contact centre and global banking
employee categories.

Alexander Mann Solutions was awarded the three year contract following a
competitive tender process. The AMS team will be tasked with handling all of
Santander's professional and specialist recruitment as well as contact centre
hiring in the UK together with the Global Banking hiring, expected to be over
2,000 hires per annum in total. The RPO solution will include a full range of
resourcing services including employer branding, candidate sourcing,
recruitment process management and assessment & selection delivery.

With over 1,000 branches within the UK and more than 25 million
customers, Santander is one of the UK's leading personal financial services
companies and one of the country's largest providers of mortgages and
savings. Santander has selected Alexander Mann Solutions in order to add
end-to-end strategic support to the organisation's talent functions. The
Alexander Mann Solutions team will be based both on and off-site and the
focus of the operation will be on reducing cycle times, improving retention
and improving candidate quality.

"As an organisation that prides itself on providing the best products and
services to our customers, Santander relies upon bringing in the highest
quality of talent available," commented Cameron Bird HR Operations Director
for Santander. "Having a world-class resourcing function is therefore
absolutely essential in order to attract and retain the best people in the
market. We are confident that, by selecting Alexander Mann Solutions as one
of our recruitment partners to design, manage and implement our end-to-end
recruitment processes, we have brought in a market leading partner to help us
maintain and indeed improve our market position and continue to deliver high
quality services to our customers."

Rosaleen Blair, CEO and founder of Alexander Mann Solutions, added, "We
are very pleased to be working with Santander and are confident that the AMS
team will have a real impact on the company's resourcing function in the near
future. What makes us particularly proud of this agreement is the fact that
Santander was one of the first organisations to originally adopt RPO in the
UK. The fact that they have now chosen to build upon their original
outsourced arrangement is a real testament to the way that Alexander Mann
Solutions has driven the RPO industry forward, innovating to provide real
business benefits to our clients across a range of resourcing disciplines."

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Alexander Mann Solutions

Alexander Mann Solutions builds world-class talent and resourcing
capability for organisations, based on the shared belief that people are the
foundation for success. As a trusted advisor, Alexander Mann Solutions
deliver this through innovative and measurable outsourcing and consulting
services.

Alexander Mann Solutions was founded in 1996 by Rosaleen Blair, the Veuve
Clicquot 2007 Business Woman of the Year.

For more information, please visit www.alexandermannsolutions.com

Banco Santander (SAN.MC, STD.N, BNC.LN)

Is a retail and commercial bank, based in Spain, with presence
in 10 main markets. At the close of June 2010, Santander was the largest bank
in the euro zone by market capitalization and, at the end of 2009, fourth in
the world by profit. Founded in 1857, Santander had EUR 1,365 billion in
managed funds. Santander has more than 90 million customers, 13,671 branches
- more than any other international bank - and 170,000 employees. It is the
largest financial group in Spain and Latin America, with leading positions in
the United Kingdom and Portugal and a broad presence in Europe through its
Santander Consumer Finance arm. In the first half of 2010, Santander
registered EUR4,445 million in net attributable profit.

In the UK, Santander operates two retail businesses -
Santander, which was formed out of the Abbey and Bradford & Bingley retail
network, and Alliance & Leicester. Together they have over 1300 branches,
around 4,500 cash machines and they provide a full range of retail and
corporate banking services to 25 million customers.

Alliance & Leicester will become known as Santander by the end of 2010.

For further information, or to arrange an interview with Alexander Mann Solutions please contact: Phil Corfan / James Warnette, Octopus Communications for Alexander Mann Solutions, T: +44(0)8453-700-655, E: ams at octopuscomms.net