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In partnership with Queen’s University Belfast, Santander will deliver a supported internship programme, aimed specifically at Northern Irish SMEs. The programme offers 12-week internships and participating SMEs will receive £1,500 towards their costs.

Michelin-starred restaurant The Black Swan at Oldstead, set on the edge of the North York Moors, has more than doubled the number of luxury hotel rooms it provides following a significant funding deal from Santander Corporate & Commercial.The move is in response to strong demand for its five-star accommodation.

22nd Apr 2016
Real estate
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Yorkshire-wide estate agency Linley & Simpson's expansion plans have continued with the purchase of York letting agency the York Property Company. The acquisition marks 10 years of operation in York by Linley & Simpson, and it is the fifth deal secured by the company since it received a £1.8m funding package last year through Santander's Breakthrough Programme.

Funding Circle is set to be the first European peer-to-peer lender to have loans from its platform securitised, setting a precedent that could attract additional funding to the industry.

Santander UK has joined forces with an online lender to provide small businesses with quick-fire funding. The bank has teamed up with Kabbage, a US fintech company in which Santander invests, to speed up the underwriting process so that firms can potentially access working capital of up to £100,000 online on the same day.

Former US treasury Secretary Larry Summers is to chair a new tech-focused international advisory board formed by Banco Santander. The seven-member panel includes prominent tech leaders such as Charles Phillips, the former president of Oracle and CEO of Infor, Francisco D'Souza, Chief Executive Officer of Cognizant, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

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